Re: linux filesize limit and amanda?

[Joi Ellis]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Yura Pismerov wrote:

>The only problem I can see here is large files (if any) inside of the
>archive. Then it will be a problem and you only can do it on foreign
>solaris filesystem
>by piping the stream to there through, for example,  ssh.

Here's what I did the last time I had to pull an image >2gig from a
tape:

cd (someplace with enough disk space)
dd if=/dev/nst0 | split -b2000m
cat x?? | restore ...

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Joi Ellis
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