RE: Samba - which does compress-client-best point to?
2003-10-24 12:31:26
Thanks for the info Paul (and Jay).
Paul, a few additional questions directed towards your response.
> In my experience the compress best uses 4 times as much CPU for only
> 5% better compression, so it's not worth it, unless you have spare CPU
> cycles to burn. Maybe it's better to increase the dumpcycle (maybe
Is this 5% difference you're referring to between compress-fast vs.
compress-best?
> Right. If you think a litter more about this, the amanda server does
> not need to be the computer that runs smbclient. My amandaserver has
> already his cpu fully loaded, and two other machines do the smbclient
> backups for my window machines, and they do the compression too.
How could I offload the smbclient connections through another machine? Are
you implying an smbmount on the client, or is there some trick with
smbclient that I'm not thinking of right now?
-Rob
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