[TriLUG] amanda compressed dumps

[JoJo Almario]

Its a RedHAt 7.2 fileserver ususally holding users home directories 
filed with .doc, .ppt .xls or some crap like that.  

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 14:18, JoJo Almario wrote:
>
>>Are there any Amanda experts in the group?  I have a thirty gig tape 
>>drive I am having trouble getting 30 gigs of data on there.  I have it 
>>set on the disk list as:
>>localhost /home comp-always-full.  I dont know if thats offering the 
>>compression I need.  Any body know what it should be for fast compression?
>>
>
>What kind of data is mostly in /home ?  It might very well already be
>compressed, in which case the Amanda compression (or the hardware
>compression of your tape drive) won't help much.  In fact, compressing
>something twice can sometimes *increase* the size due to headers and
>such.
>
>--Jeremy
>

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JoJo Almario
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