Jay Lessert wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 06:04:52PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/27.html
> 
> Just a small elaboration on the FAQ:
> 
> When using SW compression, you'll know "if you can't afford the extra
> CPU usage" by watching "DUMPER STATS" in your Amanda mail report.  If
> you're bottlenecked by gzip speed, it shows up as low numbers in the
> KB/s field.
> 
> (Believe it or not, there is no SPARC box made in the universe that can
> run 'gzip --fast' fast enough to keep up with tar/ufsdump.  An Athlon
> XP 1800+ box runs gzip about 2X faster than a US-III 750.)
> 
> My next Amanda server will be dual-CPU x86 box.  :-)
> 

My Amanda server is a PII 400MHz. The main system that needs to be
backed up is a dual Athlon 1400. Trouble is I have yet to get xinetd
working so I'm forced to do backups using NFS, and the Amanda server has
to do ALL the work.

Right now I'm writing a couple scripts to make a few admin tasks easier,
but after that I'll look at the xinetd issue again. If I can get that
working, then I'm sure my S/W compression will be MUCH faster if I have
the clients do the compression (the other 2 clients are Athlon 1200's)

I also have an extra system with a couple U/W SCSI drives that I may put
into the server and use for holding disks. That'll make things MUCH
faster (right now I only have a 2GB partition set aside for holding, and
the largest single folder I have to backup is ~12GB)

PGA
-- 
Paul G. Allen
Owner, Sr. Engineer, Security Specialist
Random Logic/Dream Park
www.randomlogic.com