Thanks for the info Paul (and Jay).
Paul, a few additional questions directed towards your response. > In my experience the compress best uses 4 times as much CPU for only > 5% better compression, so it's not worth it, unless you have spare CPU > cycles to burn. Maybe it's better to increase the dumpcycle (maybe Is this 5% difference you're referring to between compress-fast vs. compress-best? > Right. If you think a litter more about this, the amanda server does > not need to be the computer that runs smbclient. My amandaserver has > already his cpu fully loaded, and two other machines do the smbclient > backups for my window machines, and they do the compression too. How could I offload the smbclient connections through another machine? Are you implying an smbmount on the client, or is there some trick with smbclient that I'm not thinking of right now? -Rob
