On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:58:29PM -0800, fedora wrote:
> 
> hi guys,
> 
> What I was wondering is how come I can do backup for database (32GB) even
> using default estimate which is "client estimate" compare to the 2 DLEs
> (only 12GB total + using calcsize). As I know the calcsize estimate do a
> faster estimate rather than client estimate. Correct me if I was wrong and
> please advice.

The db files are likely huge, but few.  The user directories have many
small files.  It is the number of files, more than their size, that slow
down estimates.

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