Amanda-Users

Re: A question on compression

2006-06-28 14:28:09
Subject: Re: A question on compression
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:22:34 -0400
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:06:55PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 at 9:48am, Matt Emmott wrote
> 
> >define dumptype user-tar {
> >   root-tar
> >   comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
> >   priority medium
> >}
> >
> >So if I understand correctly, I should add the compress line into the
> >user-tar section? Since it's a Samba mount and not a native Amanda backup
> >per se, should I be using a "server" compression rather than a "client" 
> >one?
> 
> Actually, you can just your user comp-user-tar dumptype.  The "client" in 
> the case of samba backups is actually the *nix box running smbclient, not 
> the windoze box.  So it'll be the *nix box doing the gzipping for 
> 'compress client'.
> 

Duh, forgot that when I wrote my note :(

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