> Awhile back, I had posted about problems I was having with using AMANDA
> with Mac OS X Server. The problems I was seeing related to extremely long
> backup times, in excess of 8 hours to backup only 400MB of
> data. Apple has disabled ktrace debugging of the kernel so there wasn't
> much I could do to figure out where the problem is. However, recently, I
> decided to do a set of dumps with compression turned off. It turns out,
> thats where the slowdown is occuring. For some reason, the compression
> pipe from gzip to tar is extremely slow under Mac OS X Server. Since Mac
> OS X Server is in part based on FreeBSD, I was wondering if anyone has
> noticed similar situations with FreeBSD? Also, has anyone tested AMANDA
> with Mac OS X Beta and do similar problems exist there?
I have no experience yet with OS X but I have seen significant speed
differences between compress fast and compress best. If your slowdowns
are happening with best, try fast.
-Mitch
