Hi, Paul, on Freitag, 25. Juli 2003 at 00:06 you wrote to amanda-users:
PB> Be aware than when using samba to backup a PC, you're in fact not PB> using gnutar at all; you use the built in tar in smbclient. Thanks for pointing that out. AFAIK it ain�t that clear from just reading /docs/SAMBA ... PB> I stood once for the same problem, but I reversed the solution. PB> I installed the files on a large Linux reiserfs (very good for zillion PB> small files), and I do my backups using gnutar. PB> The filesystem is shared with samba to the server that uses it. PB> My backup time went down from over 5 hours to 1 hour 20 minutes for a PB> full dump. Estimate time went down from 2 hours to 20 minutes. So you turned it over. Clever move ;-) The question is if Bob can do the same, givin up that W2K-box for a nice Samba-server ... PB> This was long before the cygwin port became available. So I never PB> tried that path. It could be a valid path too. I'm interested PB> in the result. I am, too. best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
