Which Linux version are you using? I have upgraded to the 2.4.2 Linux
kernel (RedHat 7.1) on one of my servers. Then installed the reiserfs rpm
(a journaling file system). I created the holding disk as a reiserfs file
system, and I have overcome the 2 GB file limitation.
David Carter
McLeodUSA Information Systems
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Ext2, Amanda und dumps larger than 2 Gb
>
>
> Hi Amanda-Users-folks,
> I recently discovered a severe problem with Amanda, which I don't
> really know how to solve. The problem in detail is:
> I've backuped a partition of about 3Gb data. This was no problem, due
> to the fact, that Amanda wrote a gzipped version on the holding disk.
> The report said following:
>
> HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP%
> -------------------------- -----------------------
> merkur.li -/local/apache 0 2910480 947072 32.5
>
> Now, when I try to restore from this tape Amanda fail, because the
> file it retrievs is bigger than 2Gb, which is the limit of ext2
> under Linux. If it were possible to recover the zipped package
> from the tape via amrestore or amrecover the problem would be
> partially solved.
> I don't know how to retrieve files from tape via dd or tar manually!
> The question I have now is: Why does amanda unzip the file while
> restoring from tape and does this not while anpacking/taring?
>
> In hope for a solution,
> Cheers
> Nicki Messerschmidt
>
>
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