Dear Jonathan, dear all,
you wrote:
>Hello Nicki,
>
>This is a "severe problem" with ext2fs that has not been patched for
>large file sizes, it is not a problem for amanda. All you need to do is
>define "chunksize" in your holding disk configuration to be less than 2
>GB and the dump images will be split into chunks less than 2 GB for eg.:
>
[snip]
If I read and understood the man page of amanda (CONFIG FILE PARAMETERS
section)
correct, this would not be a solution to Nickis problem, because while
writing
the chunks to tape they will be concatenated to one tape entry:
(from the man page:
chunksize int
Default: -1. Holding disk chunk
size: dumps larger than the speci�
fied size will be stored in multiple
holding disk files, so that the size
of each chunk does not exceed the
specified value. However, even
though dump images are split in the
holding disk, they are concatenated
as they are written to tape, so that
each dump image will be correspond
to a single continuous tape section.
......
)
Nicki wrote, that the restore causes the problems. If he use chunksize smaller
than 2GB, the file size still would exceed 2GB.
I think a solution to this problem is to restore the tape entry to a not 2GB-
limited file system.
hope this helps, bye
mike
