From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:24 PM
>Are you using amrestore or amrecover? Amrecover will only actually >write the files you have requested to disk, although your observation >that it reads the entire dump from tape is correct. Dustin, thanks for the response. I am using amrecover but it will extract the entire dle first. Is there a way I can redirect it to use a different directory for this so that I can extract this 100G dle? After that I will try to break it up. >> 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. >If you're using amrecover, you should 'cd' into the directory into >which you want to recover your files before starting amrecover. This is not really what I'm asking. Apparently Amanda has a default to restore the dle into /tmp/Amanda before actually extracting what you requested. I did cd to the proper directory first, but this is irrelevant here. I need to be able to change the location that it restores the dle (before doing the actual restore) because the drive that /tmp is on is not large enough to handle it. >Currently, that's the only solution -- smaller DLEs. That is a bummer. >Not yet, but that is a major aim of the Application API and transfer >architecture, which are under active development. For a hint as to >how complex this is, see >http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/User:Dustin/Data_Handling_Model. >There's no specific ETA on this development at the moment. Thanks for the link. I looked at it but I think most of it is beyond my understanding of things here. Gordon
