>Yes, I have my chunksize set to 1000 MB.
Good.
>I am a little confused by this issue. I understand that Linux has a 2 gig
>file limit, but I am not sure how this might affect the amanda backups.
The primary effect is when images go through the holding disk. Without
chunksize set smaller than 2 GBytes, Amanda would try to write the whole
image to one disk file and that would fail (or at least act odd).
For images that do not go through the holding disk (direct to tape),
there is no issue.
>Does this mean that I should make sure that I should ensure that the
>directories I back up should be under 2 gig? ...
No need as far as Amanda is concerned. However, smaller images can have
administrative benefits (less data to move on a restore, better "fit"
on tape before tape overflow is available, etc).
>... When restoring, I though that it would just pull the files
>it needed from the tape and back to the client, and as long as no
>individual file was larger than 2 gig there would not be a problem. Am I
>off the mark here?
That's mostly correct as long as you're piping the output of amrestore
back to the client and then into the restore program (which would include
using amrecover). If you try to use amrestore to pull the whole image
back to disk, that will fail if it exceeds 2 GBytes.
Also, individual files larger than 2 GBytes would only be a problem for
a Linux client. For instance, if you run Linux on the Amanda server
and back up a Solaris box, there would be no limits on the restores to
the Solaris client.
>matt
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
