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Multi-Gb dumps using tar + software compression (gzip)?

2004-10-19 03:06:12
Subject: Multi-Gb dumps using tar + software compression (gzip)?
From: Toralf Lund <toralf AT procaptura DOT com>
To: Amanda Mailing List <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:59:08 +0200
Since I'm still having problems gunzip'ing my large dumps - see separate thread, I was just wondering:

Some of you people out there are doing the same kind of thing, right? I mean, have

  1. Dumps of directories containing several Gbs of data (up to roughly
     20Gb compressed in my case.)
  2. Use dumptype GNUTAR.
  3. Compress data using "compress client fast" or "compress server fast".

If you do, what exactly are your amanda.conf settings? And can you actually extract *all* files from the dumps?

- Toralf