>1. I have all of my gzips set to fast instead of best but whenever amdump is >running there will be a gzip --fast and gzip --best for every file that is >in my holding disk. What are the reasons behind this? The --best one is doing the index files, not the data stream. >2. quoting a colocation facilitys website: >"We use bzip2 instead of gzip for data compression. ... This comes up here about once a month :-). There was a lengthy discussion last November. Quoting Alexandre Oliva: ... people who tried to use bzip2 for backup compression ended up finding out it was just too slow. And then Jonathan F. Dill after some (non-Amanda) timing tests: In summary, bzip2 gave me 3.84% more compression at a cost of a more than fourfold increase in the time that it took to run the compression. Even so, there is something called the "FILTER API" that should allow arbritrary programs to be inserted in the data stream (compression, encryption, random number :-) and this would be the logical place to put this effort. >Ryan Williams John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
