On Tuesday 08 October 2002 11:29, Einar Matveinen wrote: >thanks, i am compressing everything in the server because i'm > backing up some windows nt clients mounted by samba (smbmount) in > my tape server. If i use compress in clients instead the server, > the compress of the nt clients will be done by the machine where > i have mounted the nt client????.
The ideal situation is that the NT machines do their own compressing, and then ship the server the compressed result. However, when you brought the NT machine into the picture, then that means a windows client. There is one, and someone can probably point you to where it can be found, but I have no experience with it at all, nor how uptodate it is in regard to interfaceing with todays amanda server. Here is another thought. Andrew T., (think samba) and his rsync utility is I think, compatible and buildable on/with the M$ stuff. This is a whole new idea in copying data in that you can mirror the NT machine's contents on a local partition using rsync, and then backup that local partition. A rerun of rsync each night brings the local copy up to date by moving only that which has changed, even if only one bite in the middle of a 20 meg file is changed, the only thing moved is the address in the fileof that byte and the new value of that byte. Its extremely efficient once the initial local copy is made. The mirror will of course take up the same drive space on the local drive. >At this moment i've enough space, i'm usinf 40 Gb hp surestore > dats, and my amount of data isn't very large. But in the future, > maybe i need compress in clients...... It does have its advantages for larger, many client systems. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.17% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
