On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:21:17AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> 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.

are the index directory and holding directory on the same device?

I was under the impression that everything (including the index) was
written to holding disk and moved into the indexdir _after_ the backup
dumped to tape.

running iostat on the holding disk while backups are running might help
rule out and disk bottleneck.

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