On Tue, 22 May 2001 at 9:35am, David Carter wrote
> 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.
>
For the record, RH 7.1 supports big files, period. FS doesn't matter
(i.e. it works on ext2 as well (and XFS, for that matter)).
> > From: Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen
> >
> > under Linux. If it were possible to recover the zipped package
> > from the tape via amrestore or amrecover the problem would be
> > partially solved.
Well, amrecover doesn't grab "packages" -- it unzips/unpacks the contents
of the dump in a pipe, and grabs the files you marked for recovery as they
go by (at least, I *think* that's what it does). So it won't have this
issue.
> > I don't know how to retrieve files from tape via dd or tar manually!
Look in docs/RESTORE in the amanda source distro for info on how to do
this. Alternatively, there's also info in "the chapter":
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
