On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >My question is this. Why run a separate estimate at all? Why not just
> >monitor the last couple of backups and extrapolate?
>
> That's been suggested before, but nobody has had the time to work on it.
> It should probably be a dumptype option. I'm perfectly happy with the
> way estimates are done on my machines, and some are volatile enough that
> guesses based on past history would be, at best, humorous :-).
It'd maybe need a low pass digital filter to handle guesses on volatile
filesystems. On the other hand, Amanda's the only backup system I'm aware
of that performs an estimation prior to backing up the systems.
It uses it to schedule the level 0,1,2,3 dumps and when in the order a
particular filesystem will be backed up?
regards,
Colin Smith.
