Aaron,

I may be wrong, but I'd have thought that the TEE was in memory,
then piped again to gzip and with the final output being put to 
an index directory specified in amanda.conf.

(or, since I haven't really worked with amrecover, I could be
 completely wrong)

In our case, the amanda directories are on a different device, I
don't know anything about intermediate files, but I'd have expected
anything written to be of very low volume, essentially directory
listings, as opposed to the actual TEE'd data stream, which would
be huge, but hopefully never touching disk.

There are levels of internals here that I'm only guessing at.

                                                thanks,

                                                Brian

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:25:33PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> I wonder if the teed index is being written to the same device that the
> backups are being read from.  that could eat into disk bandwidth
> available for feeding the tape.
> 
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