amdump is using gzip to compress the index files if you had your dumptype
with index on. It is not compressing the actual dump files.
Josh
Olaf Seidel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> now I run my first tests, Amanda backing up all the servers. I've
> used the two dumptypes "nocomp-user" and "nocomp-root" (I
> changed nothing in these dumptypes) with no compression. When
> I watch the processes on the Amanda-Server, there are processes
> "/bin/gzip --best" owned by the Amanda-User. Where do they
> come from? Aren't the dumptypes without software compression?
>
> A big thanks in advance...
>
> Greetings
> Olaf