Ok, I didn't but think I do now. Basically when amanda write to the holding disk, it rights it to a flat file on the file system, and if that flat file is larger than 2gb then you might encounter a problem if your filesystem has a limitation where it can only support files <2gb. But if you write directly to tape you will avoid this problem cause you are bypassing the filesystem.
Right Adrian? Hope I got it right, but this makes sense. Pedro -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:12 AM To: Adrian Reyer Cc: Pedro Aguayo Subject: Re: ["data write: File too large"] I don't understand the problem. When amanda encounters a filesystem larger than the holding disk, she AUTOMATICALLY resorts to direct tape write. Quoting from the amanda.conf file: # If no holding disks are specified then all dumps will be written directly # to tape. If a dump is too big to fit on the holding disk than it will be # written directly to tape. If more than one holding disk is specified then # they will all be used round-robin. We routinely backup filesystems larger than our holding disks and many files > 4GB. > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:14:33AM -0500, Pedro Aguayo wrote: > > But, I think Edwin doesn't have this problem, meaning he says he doesn't > > have a file larger than 2gb. > > I had none, either, but the filesystem was dumped into a file as a > whole, leading to a huge file, same with tar. The problem only occurs > as holding-disk is used. Continuously writing a stream of unlimited > size to a tape is no problem, but as soon as you try to do this onto a > filesytem, you run in whatever limits you have, mostly 2GB-limits on a > single file. > No holding-disk -> no big file -> no problem. (well, tape might have > to stop more often because of interruption in data-flow) > > Regards, > Adrian Reyer > -- > Adrian Reyer Fon: +49 (7 11) 2 85 19 05 > LiHAS - Servicebuero Suttgart Fax: +49 (7 11) 5 78 06 92 > Adrian Reyer & Joerg Henner GbR Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux, Netzwerke, Consulting & Support http://lihas.de/ --- Wayne Richards e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
