>I am trying to get Amanda clients to not do copression, but have the
>server do the compression. I had thought that this would happen by
>changing the dumptype record for comp-root-tar to have:
>
> compress server fast
>
>instead of
>
> compress client fast
That should have done it, assuming your disklist told Amanda to use
"comp-root-tar" as the dumptype, or inherited comp-root-tar and did
not override the setting.
>When I watch the clients (Linux, OSF/1) with "top" I see gzip max out the
>processor on the client still. ...
Try this on the server:
amadmin <config> disklist <client> <disk>
That will give you a listing of the various dumptype options. You
should see something like this:
compress SERVER FAST
If you still see:
compress CLIENT FAST
then you're probably not getting the dumptype you think you are.
>I've looked around as best as I can but I
>can't find documentation on the dumptype fields other than in amanda.conf.
They are all in the amanda(8) man page.
>Steve
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
