On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:01:43AM -0500, Ivan Petrovich wrote: > Paul, Jon, & Gene, > > My claim was based on experience of running a test configuration once, > and observing an 8-hr run time, then after turning off software > compression, observing that the time was reduced in half. I > immediately abandoned software compression. > > Are you suggesting that once Amanda has run once (for 8 hrs, using > gzip both in "estimate" and "dump"), it should not need to run gzip > for the estimate phase ever again, and will therefore only take the > "normal" amount of time (4 hrs, using gzip only for "dump") to > run?
No, I 'think' that in the absense of historical data amanda uses the "comprate" parameter (default ?0.5?). Without an actual report we don't know if the 8hrs were in estimate, dump, or what. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
