>Now, when I try to restore from this tape Amanda fail, because the
>file it retrievs is bigger than 2Gb ...
The first question is, why are you trying to bring the file back from
tape to disk? Why not use the amrestore -p option to pipe the output
directly from amrestore into your restore program (whatever that is)?
>... If it were possible to recover the zipped package
>from the tape via amrestore or amrecover the problem would be
>partially solved.
As Bernhard Erdmann said, the amrestore -c option will leave the file
in compressed form. If it's a tar format image, you should then be able
to use tar on it directly.
>I don't know how to retrieve files from tape via dd or tar manually!
As Joshua Baker-LePain said, using dd to read an Amanda tape is covered
in docs/RESTORE. It's also covered in:
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
You can't use tar directly on an Amanda tape file, but that's all
described in the above documentation.
>The question I have now is: Why does amanda unzip the file while
>restoring from tape and does this not while anpacking/taring?
It uncompresses the file because many backup programs cannot deal with
compressed images (tar is the exception). I don't understand the last
part of your question.
>Nicki Messerschmidt
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
