Hi,
I’m running Amanda 2.4.2 p2 on a Red Hat 8 server. The
backups were set up before my time, and I’m trying to wrap my head around
how the compression is set up & why it isn’t working for some
backups. We’re backing up 2 clients – One is a Red Hat server
running Amanda, and the other is a Windows server that I connect to over a
Samba mount at /home/windows_server_name. It’s the Samba mount that isn’t
compressing.
My disklist file is set up as follows – the backup server
name is “backup”, and the Linux server that I’m backing up is
called “falcon”
backup /home/windows_server_name/folder1 user-tar
backup /home/windows_server_name/folder2 user-tar
backup /home/windows_server_name/folder3 user-tar
falcon /var/folder1 comp-user-tar
falcon /var/folder2 comp-user-tar
falcon /var/folder3 comp-user-tar
And here’s the part of my Amanda.conf that specifies
the type of backup:
}
define dumptype comp-user-tar {
user-tar
compress client fast
index yes
}
However, in the backup emails, where it shows the compression
percentage, the Windows server shows no compression (shows up as --), and the
Linux client shows up in the 15-22% range. So, what is the best way to rectify
this?
Thanks!
Matt
