I have recently run into a problem with restoring. I want to restore a folder on a DLE that is about 100G. The folder I want to restore is small but apparently Amanda has to restore the entire DLE to get at the 1 folder. It is restoring the large file to /tmp/Amanda/. Unfortunately, I do not have enough room there to extract the entire DLE.
My first question is: How can I have Amanda use a different path for this task. I have an NFS mounted external drive that has much more room on it. 2nd question: Is there a way to setup Amanda so that it does not have to retrieve the entire DLE file? Is it just removing compression from the DLE def? Or chopping up the DLE to smaller chunks (this will be hard since most of the data is in 1 place on that dle). I would like for Amanda to behave in a similar way that I have had other backup software behave. That is, if I just want a single file or folder, then it scans the tape (in this case vtapes) and retrieves only what I want. When I have successfully retrieved files with Amanda before it took a very long time. Is there a way to set it up so that it will do this? Thanks for the help. Regards, Gordon
