I just ran into the "gzip: Broken Pipe" errors myself.
I ended up doing using the "-c" flag with amrestore, so that it
didn't uncompress the backup (it just pulled it from the tape, and
dropped the whole compressed thing into the current file system).
Then, use:
gunzip -c <big file> | restore -if -
To unzip the file and pipe directly into the restore command on the
fly. I don't know if this is the "proper" way, or the exact reason
why the uncompressing failed when amrestore tried to do it... but
hey, this worked for me. YMMV.
Todd
>I am currently running Amanda v2.4.1p1, with tar v1.13.17, gzip v1.3.3. I
>am currently backing up an NT share that contains alot of files that total
>up in size exceeding 4 gig. I am running with compression on the server,
>and backing up the share from the backup server (yes, I know it is quicker
>to backup off the backup server).
>
>The reason I am writing -->> every time I have tried to restore parts
>anything back to the NT share it fails. The current restore failed and
>wrote the following in the amidxtaped file:
>
>amrestore: 74: restoring
>backup.logical.net.__web1.logical.net_Domains.20020503.0
>
>gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
>Error 32 (Broken pipe) offset 2124414976+32768, wrote 134525600
>amrestore: pipe reader has quit in middle of file.
>amrestore: skipping ahead to start of next file, please wait...
>amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
>Rewinding tape: done
>amidxtaped: pid 20256 finish time Thu May 9 17:14:49 2002
>
>The Broken pipe has shown up every time I try to do a restore to this NT
>share. I don't seem to have problems restoring any data to my Unix
>partitions and data to NT partitions where the total space is not alot.
>Does anyone have a clue as to what might the problem here be?? It is rather
>time consuming to have to go and run the restore only to discover that I end
>up having to restore the data by hand.
>
>Any/all assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated.
>
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>"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways
>that won't work." - Thomas Edison
>
>Michael Hendrix [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Systems Engineer / SysAdmin Team Leader
>Logical Net / Capital Net (518) 292-4509
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