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.

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