Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Here is a couple of questions...
>
> 1) I beleive gzip command is activated by the dumper, not by the
> taper? Am I right?
Yes, AFIK.
>
> 2) In case I want to speed up gzip, what should I increase on my
> system? CPU? Memory? I have a dedicated Pentium III 800 as amanda
> server, and I do gzip best on the server.
I'd think about gzip fast. Squeezing the last redundant bytes takes a
lot of CPU power. I'd estimate the images to grow by 10% compared to
best compression.
>
> 3) I have defined a chunck size of 1Gb
>
> chunksize 1Gb # size of chunk if you want big dump to be
> # dumped on multiple files on holding disks
>
> Yesterday, while running some tests suggested by JRJ, I could
> amrestore a file that was 2GB, how does it come?
The chunks are concatenated (without some headers) to rearrange
images.
Johannes Niess
