--- a/bin/ftbackup	Wed Apr 27 17:01:00 2011 +0200
+++ b/bin/ftbackup	Thu Apr 28 00:25:18 2011 +0200
@@ -182,12 +182,6 @@
             }
         }
 
-	# now check, which of the old backups can be purged
-	# The config KEEP tells us how many full dumps we need to
-	# keep. The pre-dump cleaning should keep this number
-	# and after successfull dump we need to cleanup again
-	#$last[0] = [ sort { $a->{stamp} <=> $b->{stamp} } @{$last[0]} ];
-
 	# for safety we check if there is really a full dump not older than xxx days
         if ($dev->{level} > 0) {
 	    if (!@last) {
@@ -494,10 +488,22 @@
     return @devs;
 }
 
+sub human_number($) {
+    my $n = shift;
+    my @units = ("", qw(K M G T));
+    while (length($n) > 3) {
+	$n = int($n / 1024);
+	shift @units;
+    }
+    return "$n $units[0]";
+}
+
+
 sub get_estimate($$) {
     my ($dev, $level) = @_;
-    warn "% estimating $dev->{rdev} at level $level\n";
+    print STDERR "% estimating $dev->{rdev} at level $level: ";
     chomp(my $_ = `dump -S -$level $dev->{rdev}`);
+    print STDERR human_number($_) . "Byte\n";
     return $_;
 }
 
@@ -552,10 +558,14 @@
     # ones.
     # if we found level 0 dumps, we remove all level 1+ dumps older than
     # the oldest level 0 dump we'll remove
-    @{$dumps[0]} = reverse sort { $a->{stamp} <=> $b->{stamp} } @{$dumps[0]};
-    my @unlink = @{$dumps[0]}[$keep..$#{$dumps[0]}];
-    push @unlink => grep { $_->{stamp} <= $unlink[0]->{stamp} } @{@dumps[1..$#dumps]}
-	if @unlink;
+    @{$dumps[0]} = sort { $a->{stamp} <=> $b->{stamp} } @{$dumps[0]};
+    my @unlink = splice(@{$dumps[0]}, -1, @{$dumps[0]} - $keep);
+
+    if ($dumps[1]) {
+	if (!@{$dumps[0]}) { push @unlink, @{@dumps[1..$#dumps]} }
+	else { push @unlink => grep { $_->{stamp} <= $dumps[0][0]{stamp} } @{@dumps[1..$#dumps]} }
+    }
+
     ### @unlink
 
     foreach (@unlink) {