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Can't seem to disable software compression.

2008-04-30 09:12:20
Subject: Can't seem to disable software compression.
From: Edi Šuc <e AT ed0 DOT net>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:45:21 +0200
Hi.

It seems that I can't disable software compression in amanda. I tried everything that could in my opinion have an impact on compression. But no luck. The problem is that i have a relatively slow machine and it takes forever to complete the backup. If I check the processes i see this:

19021 ?        S      0:00          \_ /bin/sh /usr/sbin/amdump AAA1
19031 ?        S      0:00              \_ /usr/lib/amanda/driver AAA1
19032 ?        S      0:01                  \_ taper AAA1
19037 ?        S      0:01                  |   \_ taper AAA1
19033 ?        S      0:08                  \_ dumper0 AAA1
19034 ?        S      5:31                  \_ dumper1 AAA1
19074 ?        S      0:08                  |   \_ /bin/gzip --best
19035 ?        S      0:00                  \_ dumper2 AAA1
19036 ?        S      0:00                  \_ dumper3 AAA1
19066 ?        S      8:59                  \_ chunker1 AAA1

I suppose that there shouldn't be a "gzip --best" if I disable the compression. I also tried to use the directive "compress fast" in the "define dumptype" section, but no luck. "gzip --best" is still there (it should at least change to "gzip --fast").

This is my "disklist":
server  /boot   tar_midp
server  /       tar_midp


And this is my "amanda.conf":
org      "AAA"
mailto   "root"
dumpuser "backup"       # the user to run dumps under

inparallel 4
dumporder "sssS"
taperalgo first
displayunit "k"
netusage  600 Kbps
dumpcycle 1 weeks
runspercycle 5
tapecycle 10 tapes
bumpsize 20 Mb
bumppercent 20
bumpdays 1
bumpmult 4
etimeout 300
dtimeout 1800
ctimeout 30
tapebufs 20
usetimestamps no
runtapes 1
tapedev "/dev/nst0"
rawtapedev ""
changerfile "/etc/amanda/AAA/changer.conf"
changerdev "/dev/null"
maxdumpsize -1
tapetype HPC7972A
labelstr "^AAADLT[0-9][0-9]*$"
amrecover_do_fsf yes
amrecover_check_label yes
amrecover_changer ""
holdingdisk hd1 {
   directory "/var/local/arhiv/amanda_hold"
   use -2 Gb
   chunksize 2Gb
   }
autoflush no
infofile "/var/lib/amanda/AAA1/curinfo"
logdir   "/var/log/amanda/AAA1"
indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/AAA1/index"

define tapetype HPC7972A {
   comment "just produced by tapetype program"
   length 193024 mbytes
   filemark 0 kbytes
   speed 13723 kps
}

define dumptype global {
   comment "Global definitions"
   index yes
   compress none
   holdingdisk auto
   comprate 1
   estimate calcsize
}

define dumptype tar_midp {
   comment "Tar mid priority"
   program "GNUTAR"
   exclude list ".amanda.excludes"
   priority medium
   compress none
   index yes
   holdingdisk auto
   comprate 1
   estimate calcsize
}

define interface local {
   comment "a local disk"
   use 1000 kbps
}

define interface le0 {
   comment "10 Mbps ethernet"
   use 400 kbps
}

The installation is on Debian etch (4.0). Amanda (server and client) version 2.5.1p1-2.1

Anyone any idea?

Regards,
Edi

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