Thanks Gene! Hopefully you've answered my question without me needed to ask
it :o)

I'm assuming I need to upgrade tar on the client machine, not the amanda
server...?

Are there any source tarballs of tar floating around? The tar located:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/

is 1.13.19

which comes with RH7.1... there's an rpm for 1.13.25 but i'll need to
upgrade some libs
error: failed dependencies:
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3)   is needed by tar-1.13.25-4

which I'm not keen to do unless I really have to.

Cheers,

Chris



|-----Original Message-----
|From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
|[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
|Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:26
|To: Chris Herrmann; 'greg'; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
|Subject: Re: statistics
|
|
|On Wednesday 04 September 2002 18:53, Chris Herrmann wrote:
|>yes - that's right. the slow part is your computer compressing the
|> data. The "offline" message is a "yet to be crafted" question for
|> this list - amanda isn't backing up the reiserfs partition on one
|> of the machines. The drive is a SDLT110, there are 3 servers, and
|> a dedicated 40G holding disk. After setting it up this way, the
|> performance of amanda skyrocketed (by having a dedicated holding
|> disk, fast backup drive, one server getting multiple clients to
|> do client-side compression).
|
|Re reiserfs.  If you are using dump, it knows nothing about
|reiserfs.  But late (1.13-25) versions of tar should be just fine.
|
|[...]
|
|--
|Cheers, Gene
|AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
|Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
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