Alan from DEC reports that vdump expands sparse files with the "appropriate
number" of nulls as it pulls them off the disk for backup. Although 'df -k
/' shows ~48Meg, 'du -sxk /' showed the 1.3gig that vdump reports. Guess I
will have to write some sort of exception into the 'sendsize' routine that
my dump manager runs (or see if I can get the gnutar stuff running in the
new Amanda release) Bleah.
Thanks to all.
--Grant
Forwarded message:
>
>vdump on node gecko (OSF/1 3.2c) is showing a +1gig "bytes to dump" message
>on a 65meg filesystem containing less than 50 meg of data.
...
>--Grant
--
Grant Basham (305)361-4026 University of Miami
grant_at_oj.rsmas.miami.edu RSMAS Computer Facility/Systems
Received on Tue May 21 1996 - 22:44:38 NZST