index are always compressed on the server with --best.
Why do you think your data is compressed?

Jean-Louis

Brian Cuttler wrote:

Good morning amanda users,

I'm running amanda 2.4.4 on solaris 9, just built it on solaris 8.

Finding that my TAR dumptypes seem to be running compression though
I believe I've configured it not to.

The (ufs)DUMP DLEs properly perform "compression none".

Not only that, but the default, I believe is "client fast" and
we seem be be compressing "best".

I'm undoubtedly overlooked something simple... but I can't find it.

Suggestions on what I've missed ?

                                                thank you,
        
                                                Brian

From disklist

wcnotes   /maildb2/five {
        user-tar
        }

from amanda.conf


define dumptype user-tar {
    program "GNUTAR"
    comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
#    options no-compress
    compress none
    index
# exclude list
    priority medium
}

from amadmin disklist

line 45:
    host wcnotes:
        interface default
    disk /maildb2/five:
        program "GNUTAR"
        priority 1
        dumpcycle 7
        maxdumps 4
        maxpromoteday 10000
        strategy STANDARD
        compress NONE
        auth BSD
        kencrypt NO
        holdingdisk YES
        record YES
        index YES
        skip-incr NO
        skip-full NO

from ps output

ps -ef | grep amanda | grep zip
  amanda 27548 26272  0 10:44:57 ?        0:00 /usr/local/bin/gzip --best
  amanda 27776 21135  0 11:18:06 pts/3    0:00 grep zip
  amanda 27670 26273  0 11:01:44 ?        0:00 /usr/local/bin/gzip --best
  amanda 27531 26274  0 10:43:55 ?        0:00 /usr/local/bin/gzip --best

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