DOH! Never mind....I read the man page for amrecover...hehe Yeah, yeah, I know....RTFM.
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:06, Aaron Smith wrote: > I'm hoping someone can clear something up for me. Does amrestore > uncompress an image as it restores it? The reason I ask is that I had > an image on an amanda tape that was supposedly compressed via gzip. The > amanda mail report indicated that the original KB was about 5.1Gb, and > Out-KB was about 2.9Gb for a 57% compression. The other image on the > tape was listed with an Out-KB of about 4.3Gb and taper reported having > put 7.2Gb to tape. The math works out. > I just recently did an amrestore on that 5.1-compressed to 2.9Gb image > (by doing amrestore -p, piped through SSH, and then >'d into a file) and > the resulting file was 4.9Gb and not gzipped at all. When I ran that > file through Gzip, it squeezed it down to the familiar 2.9Gb size. So > was the image compressed and amrestore uncompressed it? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aaron Smith vox: 269.226.9550 ext.26 Network Director fax: 269.349.9076 Nexcerpt, Inc. http://www.nexcerpt.com ...Nexcerpt... Extend Your Expertise