Greetings;

In my troubleshooting of the 2.6.21-rc* vs tar thinking the whole system 
is new, where it works normally for any kernel up to 2.6.20.3. I find I'm 
in need of an amestimate command, to have amdump survey the system and 
report how much data (before compression obviously) that a dump would 
generate, but without doing anything to the install other than what it 
would normally do if it went all the way through the estimate phase plus 
its scheduling calculations, reporting the results and then exiting 
without actually doing anything.

The man pages don't seem to indicate we have such a utility.  It there  a 
way to do this that is not obvious from the manpages?

If we had such a tool, I could run an estimate phase in advance of the 
regular run and be in a position to reboot to the older kernel ahead of 
time instead of totally screwing with the amanda database.

Thanks all.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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