John Heim wrote:
> I'm having trouble making backups because the estimates are taking too long. 
> I inherited an amanda backup setup and my predecessor had already increased 
> the etimeout to 1800. I doubled it to 3600 and I was still getting timeout 
> warnings at the top of the email when I did an amdump. So I doubled it again 
> and now it's been running for 3 days.
> 
> I saw in the amanda.conf man page that there's an 'estimate' directive. 
> Values are client, calcsize, and server. But amdump complains when I add the 
> directive to amanda.conf saying, "configuration keyword expected". I'm 
> pretty sure the spelling is right since I cut and pasted right from the man 
> page.
> # Do faster estimates
> estimate calcsize

Did you put it in a dumptype definition where it belongs, or did you
try it as a global option where it can't work?  If you just search
for estimate in the man page it's easy to overlook that it is only
valid inside a dumptype definition.
> 
> Questions:
> 1. Is something wrong with my setup that it takes that long to do the 
> estimates?
Possibly, but more likely you just have busy disks and/or a filesystem
with a lot of small files.
> 2. Can I spped up the estimates?
Use 'estimate calcsize'.

Good luck,
Frank


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