On 5 January 2011 10:20, Tyler J. Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 08:16 +0000, Timothy Omer wrote:
> > Can anyone possibly answer my question above? Need to start to send
> > out this information and want to make sure im grabbing the correct
> > data. Have searched past posts and cannot find a decent answer to
> > this.
>
> Sorry, Tim. This question does get asked about once a month. As a I
> said, it's an irrelevant statistic. It doesn't exist.
>
> If you want to provide simple feedback to the clients on usage, I
> suggest something simple like summing the total data transfered from the
> last Full and Incremental, then perhaps dividing it by the known
> compression/pooling ratio. For me, that's about 1:9.
>
> Running a lot of du's is going to take a long time anyway, for any large
> pool.
>
> Regards,
> Tyler
>
> --
> "No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices."
>   -- Edward R. Murrow
>
> hi guys, sorry i know there is nothing more frustrating than the same
question that keeps on popping up - I have been watching this list for the
last 6 months and checked archives but could not find anything that clearly
answered my question.

gregwm - that sounds fine, i know the match will not be spot on, just a
reasonable idea is needed
Tyler - that sounds like a good idea, if I add the data in the "Compression
Summary" i get the approx same as du, so that looks like a good plan.

thanks all!
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