This particular one is not a FAQ, yet. Because tapeio is not in
common use, yet. The 2 GB file limit question is a FAQ when asked
in regard to holding disk files and in regard to amrestore, and each
situation has a somewhat different answer. There is a config option
that works around the problem nicely with holding disk files.
In your case it's a matter of your "tapes" being limited to 2 GB in
size. Thus your options would appear to be using bigger "tapes",
splitting your dumps up into less than 2 GB each, or somehow splitting
your dumps across multiple tapes.
Using bigger tapes in your case means putting your dumps on a
filesystem that supports large files. Splitting your dumps up into
smaller pieces is a commonly used solution with amanda to workaround
this problem. There is a tar wrapper script at:
ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtar-wrapper.*
... that can help with this. Splitting a single dump across multiple
tapes is not yet supported in amanda, though there is an ongoing project
to add this feature.
-Mitch
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Dan Debertin wrote:
> This probably falls under the "why can't I split my backups across
> multiple tapes?" FAQ, but maybe not.
>
> I'm using the file: driver from the tapeio branch to back up a large
> filesystem to another disk. The system that I'm using (Linux) doesn't
> support files larger than 2GB, which is causing backups to fail.
>
> I'm thinking that my only options are upgrading to kernel 2.4 and
> recompiling glibc, or switching to a different OS, but if there's any way
> around this from the amanda-configuration standpoint, that would be
> simpler....ideas?
>
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