Re: Amanda server selection advice

[Graeme Humphries]

Gene Heskett wrote:

So is offloading the compression duties to the client, which has the 
advantage of reducing the footprint on the networks bandwidth too.
You do this in the dumptype with "compress client best". It Just 
Works(TM) :-)
 

Well, like I said in my other e-mail, and I believe this is an issue 
that other people are running into as well, the client machines are so 
slow that even my current backup server is faster than them. Believe me, 
I benchmarked the backup times with server vs client side compression, 
and the server side is still faster even with it being a huge 
bottleneck. Client side compression only "Just Works" if your clients 
are reasonably powered, which isn't always the case with legacy servers 
to back up. ;)

Graeme