DECnsr and saveset completion reporting

From: Knut Hellebø <Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 10:10:20 +0200

Regards managers,

We have a DECnsr server running version 4.2B-12/10. The server is also
part of a ASE NFS cluster and I wonder whether the saveset completion
reports from DECnsr are correct. Here's an example:

'df -kt advfs /ase/filesystem' gives

domain#fileset 20000000 18686316 1313684 93%
/usr/var/opt/ASE130/ase/mnt/service/ase/filesystem

and the saveset completion report:

  service: /usr/var/opt/ASE130/ase/mnt/service/ase/filesystem
level=full, 4175 MB 07:07:59 151216 files

As you can see, the report states that only 4GB have been backed up but
there's ~18.7GB in the fileset. I have problems believing that the TLZ87
compresses that well (~78% compression ratio). Is the report wrong or
(God forbid) isn't all the data being backed up (difficult to verify
with a 20GB fileset on a server serving several hundred users) ?
Bug ? Feature ?

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