System: RedHat 7.1, kernel 2.4.19 amanda 2.4.2p2, samba 2.2.6 I've been backing up several Windows machines for a while now (months). Recently, I've been getting cramped with tape space, so I added "compress-client-best" to my samba-pc dump type.
However, while watching amanda perform the dump, it seems as if the linux server is compressing the data, and not the windows client. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense, since amanda treats the smbclient connection as an ftp connection rather than an amanda client machine. So the amanda server itself is the client, and the server in one for the samba backups (right?) But, my amanda server is slow. So the PC stays connected while the dumper compresses the dumped files. Would the dumper relinquish the machine faster if I used compress-svr-fast vs. compress-client-fast? -Rob