Ext2, Amanda and dumps larger than 2 Gb

[Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen]

Hi Amanda-Users-folks,
I recently discovered a severe problem with Amanda, which I don't
really
know how to solve. The problem in detail is:
I've backuped a partition of about 3Gb data. This was no problem, due
to
the fact, that Amanda wrote a gzipped version on the holding disk. The
report said following:

HOSTNAME  DISK           L  ORIG-KB   OUT-KB COMP%
-------------------------- -----------------------
merkur.li -/local/apache 0  2910480   947072  32.5

Now, when I try to restore from this tape Amanda fail, because the
file it
retrievs is bigger than 2Gb, which is the limit of ext2 under Linux.
If it
were possible to recover the zipped package from the tape via
amrestore or
amrecover the problem would be partially solved.
I don't know how to retrieve files from tape via dd or tar manually!
The question I have now is: Why does amanda unzip the file while
restoring
from tape and does this not while anpacking/taring?

In hope for a solution,
Cheers
Nicki Messerschmidt

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