* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:41:53PM -0500)
>>>> 1) Why is gnutar used in stead of calcsize ?
>>
>>> For one thing, it knows about exclusion lists.
>>
>>For another, it knows about incrementals.
> Actually, we might be wrong on both counts. I took a very quick look
> at the source and there is at least some support for exclusions.
According to the amanda-hackers archive at egroups
calcsize uses the exclusion code from gnutar.
And yes, calcsize knows about incrementals.
> And I think it can handle incrementals because it is given multiple
> timestamps to compare against and appears to add up sizes between the
> values, which would amount to an incremental.
True.
> I think.
I've tried it on 3 backup runs and the results were accurate enough for me.
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