Tom Robinson wrote at 12:30 +1100 on Jan 22, 2009: > I've got several disks that are showing weird compression results in the > amanda report. Here's one of them: > > DUMPER STATS > TAPER STATS > HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS > KB/s MMM:SS KB/s > ------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------ --------------- > host /disk 1 2031690 4063380 200.0 36:34 > 1852.3 6:27 10487.2 > > > Note the ORIG-KB blows out to twice the size! COMP% is 200.0... > > This happens on more that one disk actually. I chose this disk as it's > the biggest disk that I dump, it shows the most expansive blowout and I > noticed it first. This disk uses 'compress NONE' (dumptype is > nocomp-root). Some of the other disks showing compression weirdness are > using 'compress client fast' in their DLE's.
Smells like a factor of two error somewhere (512 byte blocks vs. 1024?). What does 'env -i du -ks /disk' say?