Dana Bourgeois wrote:

I am running all of these for the first time.  Amanda is scheduling 35G (one
tape) but only about 3G is actually getting written for one reason or
another (some is compression, some is weird tar errors).  At this rate it

Is the "compression" problem because amanda actually compresses better
than the default 50%, you can change that parameter too.  See "comprate"
in the manpage.
The weird tar errors should be sorted out of course.

will take weeks to have this running.  What's the fastest way to get this
going?  Should I run amdump a couple of times per day adding clients each
run?  Perhaps run a different set of clients each night?  That would take 4

or a few runs. Amanda will schedule that amount, and fill one tape of
data.  In the morning you flush the rest of the holdingdisk manually.

If you have a changer, you could increase runtapes too, which similar

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