>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:52:54 -0500
>From: Michael Lea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sorry if this is covered elsewhere, but I couldn't find anything about it.
>My understanding of the way that amanda works is that it streams the
>dump file to the holding disk on the tapehost, and then that gets written to
>the tape. In my case, an x86 linux box is the tapehost, and it backs up
>some solaris boxes. So my question is, what happens when it's backing
>up a filesystem that is larger than the 2gb filesize limit? I have run
>into that problem trying to restore a large solaris filesystem dump, how
>does it backup large filesystems like that?
That's what the "chunksize" specification (for a given holding disk) is
for in the amanda.conf -- to break up the backup image into pieces that
are manageable on the OS & file system in question. (The chunks get
concatenated when the image is written to tape, so there is -- for now,
anyway -- no way to tell how many chunks the image was originally
written in. This is a Good Thing, because that way, the "chunking"
cannot interfere with the recovery process.)
Cheers,
david
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