On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 at 11:26am, wab wrote > Greetings. I'm attempting to recover a filesystem which is about 15-18 > gigs in size. Amanda is using Tar to compress its archives... I tried to > restore the "image" to a filesystem large enough to handle the data, > before moving back to the original location; but I got a "File size > limit exceeded". (It reached about 2.5 gigs in size).
That's a bit odd. I would think that if it were going to choke, it'd do it at 2GB. > I understand it's possible to Pipe the restore through TAR to > de-compress it back to regular files; but I can't figure out the syntax > exactly; has anybody ever done this? I think that's what I must do, > either that or find a filesystem/operating system that can handle giant > huge files. amrestore <options> | tar xvf - -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
