On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:54:48PM -0400, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Jon LaBadie wrote:

If you are "restoring" 21GB, that sounds like entire DLEs/filesystems.
amrecover is used more for selected files or directory trees.

Perhaps your greatest speedup could come from using amrestore to extract
the raw archive from tape, transfering that to the client as a single
file, then using tar/restore (with gunzip as needed) to expand the entire
archive locally.

Disk space is a limiting factor in doing that.     I'd need 42Gb of
storage and only have 36GB available.

Stepping down a little, I'm pretty sure amrestore could be run from the
client rather than amrecover.  Should still be faster.  Or get the
archive on the server and nfs mount its directory on the client.
Or, can't ssh be used to pipe the archive to the tar/restore on the
client?

I'm going to give it a shot using the ssh pipe.
Thanks,




Brian Seppanen
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