On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:48:02AM -0600, Gordon J. Mills III wrote: > 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? >
Is this simply a case of not realizing that 'amrestore' is generally used for complete dle restoration while 'amrecover' is used for individual file/directory recovery? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
