Backup advice

[Jason Lixfeld]

On 24-May-07, at 3:16 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote:

>> 2 x system space would be enough for a full dump plus plenty of
>> increments, I'd say.  No?  Is there a rule of thumb?  3x?  4x?
>
> That depends how much your file system change. If every ficle change
> befor the incremental run, dump 1 will be equal to dump 2, and 2x will
> be enough for just dump0 and dump 1.
>
> There is no rule.

How would one go about gauging their system for the number of file  
system changes to determine a suitable amount of backup space?

> Olivier