On Thursday 23 September 2004 09:19, Ivan Petrovich wrote: >> If you use software compression however, amanda pipes the data >> through gzip before writing to tape. This has two advantages: >> gzip does not suffer from the "expand already compressed data" >> syndrome, and amanda has an exact knowledge how much bytes to >> write on the tape. The added accuracy greatly improves the >> planning capacities of amanda. Amanda really likes to schedule >> using accurate numbers. > >Paul, > >The problem I have with using software compression is that it adds >several hours to the "estimate phase." Am I doing something wrong? > Does Amanda run the gzip ones to get the output size before running > gzip again when performing the actual dump? > >Thanks and regards, > >Ivan
I don't think so Ivan. What she normally does is look in her history to see how much this disklist 'entry' compressed the last time. Or at least thats how I understand it. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
