I noticed something odd today while maintaining my amanda server, and I seek some advise. My amanda server is slow (350MHz CPU), so most of the dump are configured so that the clients compress the data. The global dumptype is setup with "compress client best".
For slower systems, I override the global compress with "compress client fast". But this doesn't seem to be working as of late. When I do a `ps -aef | grep amanda`, I see the dumper, the taper, and about 7-8 "gzip --best" processes. Now, in my disklist, I only have one entry for my amanda server, and 2 samba entries. All three use a dumptype that compresses client fast. All of my other systems listed in disklist are set for compress client best (linux, alpha, irix, solaris). So my question is, why am I seeing all of these gzip processes on the amanda server? I thought they were supposed to be residing on the client. Is there anyway to determine what system dump is causing the compression to reside on the server, instead of the client? Redhat 7.2 Linux 2.4.19 Amanda 2.4.2p2 -Rob
