1) configure amanda to use an alternate gzip, as with:
configure ... --with-gzip=/usr/local/amanda-gzip
2) make a shellscript /usr/local/amanda-gzip which does a
nice --19 /usr/local/bin/gzip "$@"
Marc
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Gael Lepetit wrote:
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:52:40 +0200
> From: Gael Lepetit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: amanda-users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: How to "nice" an Amanda dump/compression
>
> It's not what I want.
> I've made a mistake about my problem (and my poor english as not helped
> me).
>
> I want to nice the compression of the dump (the
> "ufsdump|ufsrestore|gzip") on the clients.
>
>
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> > Assuming you use something like a crontab entry for your
> > amdump call, put it there. Or have your crontab entry
> > start a shell script that does the "nice -5 amdump ..."
>
>
> --
> Gael LEPETIT Linux Registred User #176381
> Intervenant Systeme OSIATIS http://www.osiatis.com
> Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Departement MS http://www.cnes.fr
>
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