Hi, Paul,

on Freitag, 25. Juli 2003 at 00:06 you wrote to amanda-users:

PB> Be aware than when using samba to backup a PC, you're in fact not
PB> using gnutar at all; you use the built in tar in smbclient.

Thanks for pointing that out. AFAIK it ainŽt that clear from just
reading /docs/SAMBA ...

PB> I stood once for the same problem, but I reversed the solution.

PB> I installed the files on a large Linux reiserfs (very good for zillion
PB> small files), and I do my backups using gnutar.
PB> The filesystem is shared with samba to the server that uses it.
PB> My backup time went down from over 5 hours to 1 hour 20 minutes for a
PB> full dump.  Estimate time went down from 2 hours to 20 minutes.

So you turned it over. Clever move ;-)
The question is if Bob can do the same, givin up that W2K-box for a
nice Samba-server ...

PB> This was long before the cygwin port became available.  So I never
PB> tried that path.  It could be a valid path too.  I'm interested
PB> in the result.

I am, too.

best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at