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George Kelbley wrote:
My experience is that this is much slower than directly to the amanda server, but I guess there would be a lot of variable from site to site.
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Alternatively, you can back up the files on the NFS server instead of on the
client.
How can a client be faster than a server. Someone has to read the bytes from the disk. And it's the server that has to give those bytes to the client anyway.
Running the amanda client on the NFS-server can benefit from software compression too, resulting in less bytes to transfer over the network. Unless you have a very slow server and very fast client, and need "best" compression (but that is rarely needed: 4 times much cpu use to gain a few percentage space at most).
Are there other circumsances?
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