John Hein wrote at 21:38 -0700 on Jan 21, 2009: > 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?
Never mind that last request... your report above shows a level 1, not 0. So du output won't be a useful comparision to the numbers above. Does it behave the same (x2) for level 0 dumps, too?