On 17 May 2002 at 12:16pm, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote > I need to back up Windows systems (both full and incremental). The > majority of what needs to be backed up is large word and excel files. > Can these be compressed? Since they are SMB mounts, should I use client > or server side compression? Below is an example of what I think I need, > but any pointers are more than welcome.
Anything can be compressed. The question is will it actually get smaller? I'm guessing Word and Excel files will compress well, but you should test to make sure. With samba backups, note that when you say "compress client", it's actually the *nix box doing the smbmount that will be running the gzip (not the 'doze box). "compress server" will make the amanda server run the gzip, of course. The (snipped) dumptypes look fine to me. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
