On Wednesday 22 December 2004 09:19, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:47:21AM +0100, Mathias Indermuehle wrote: >> Thanks for your answer.. >> >> Badly it doesn't realy help.. the problem is not on the >> holdingdisk, its on the "tape" - I use a harddisk to backup these >> files. The setting made smaller files at the holdingdisk, but not >> on the tape (destination disk). >> >> If there is no other posibility it would be a hint if someone can >> tell me how to get these splitet files togethere.. (then I can use >> a script to put them on the backup disk manualy and when I need a >> restore I can put them togethere and unpack them) > >I, and I'm sure Gene and others, thought you were writing to tape, >not virtual tapes. > >On the disk drive where the vtapes reside, is there sufficient > space? If so, can't you just increase the virtual size in the > tapetype definition?
I don't think thats Mathias problem Jon, from my reading between the lines, he has a filesystem filesize limitation, probably the infamous 2GB limit. So I think Mathias has two choices since the obvious one is going to be an 'outside of amanda' hack. Any recovery operations would Not be at all tastey IMO. 1: Change to an os distro that doesn't have that limit, and it hasn't existed in linux since the early part of the 2.4 kernel series, or 2: break his disklist entries up into suitably smaller pieces. I would do the latter if he has other software that is dependent on that os and version number. I'd also be messageing that software's vendor for a fix asap that will let it run on later releases. That said, when that filesize fix was installed, I did not have to reformat my drives and start over, it was a transparent to me fix. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.30% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
