On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 at 10:59am, Len Pikulski wrote > I am trying to restore a failed drive from backup, and am getting an error > message stating: > ------------------- > amrestore: 7: restoring gateway.hdb1.20010919.0 > File size limit exceeded > ---------------------- > Then back to the prompt. > The file size is 2147483647 > > Any help on this error message would be appreciated. > The drive receiving the data is an almost empty 20Gb disk > amrestore is pulling the image off the tape and trying to put it into one file on the hard drive. But your system has a 2GB filesize limit, and amrestore is hitting that. You have a couple of options:
1) Pipe the output of amrestore straight into your restore program 2) Pipe the output of amrestore into 'split' and put the image into multiple chunks. You'll have to 'cat' them together and pipe that into your restore program to get the data out. Obviously, 1 is the more direct path. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
