bzip2 probably isn't fast enough to stream to your tape drive. i'd
suggest that you do some testing...
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >In amanda, the configuration file seems to think that the user isn't
> >smart enough to manually specify a compression program :-) ...
>
> No offense, but some of them aren't :-).
>
> And that's not necessarily bad. Some software I install I just want to
> get up and running without spending forever trying to figure out how to
> configure it.
>
> Not that Amanda is the poster child for ease of installation :-).
>
> >I'd much
> >rather specify "gzip -9" and "gunzip" than specify "best compression"
> >or whatnot. ...
>
> But that's not the point. By adding a layer of abstraction, Amanda can
> deal with the various nastiness of what command line arguments are needed,
> what file suffix is used, etc.
>
> Look at all the incredible amount of effort it has to put in to deal
> with "program dump".
>
> >Are there any plans to support this? ...
>
> If bzip2 takes exactly the same arguments as gzip, you can do this
> right now:
>
> make distclean
> env GZIP=/path/to/bzip2 ./configure ...
> make
> su root -c "make install"
>
> In the long term, there is a FILTER-API proposal to take care of this
> at run time. Feel free to contribute to that effort.
>
> >-- John
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
