On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 at 11:26am, wab wrote

> Greetings. I'm attempting to recover a filesystem which is about 15-18
> gigs in size. Amanda is using Tar to compress its archives... I tried to
> restore the "image" to a filesystem large enough to handle the data,
> before moving back to the original location; but I got a "File size
> limit exceeded". (It reached about 2.5 gigs in size).

That's a bit odd.  I would think that if it were going to choke, it'd do 
it at 2GB.

> I understand it's possible to Pipe the restore through TAR to
> de-compress it back to regular files; but I can't figure out the syntax
> exactly; has anybody ever done this? I think that's what I must do,
> either that or find a filesystem/operating system that can handle giant
> huge files.

amrestore <options> | tar xvf -

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University