On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:08:52PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> I have recently installed amanda 2.4.2p2 and I discovered that it no 
> longer supports "negative chunksize" parameter, which I used to direct big 
> dumps (some 10G+ filesystems) to tape directly. Now, when I try to du 
> level 0 dump of such a filesystem, it gives me an error: "data write: File 
> too large". 
> What could be a solution of this problem? I don't really want to split 
> these filesystems in parts - they have a lot of subdirs, and it's a pain 
> to maintain the up-to-date list. Is there a way to make dump go directly 
> on tape as before? Or does my problem lie in something else? (BTW, the 
> tape should be enough to keep the dumps - it's 35M tape, and I did 
> successfull level 0 dump on it with older amanda version). 

I do not recall a meaning for negative chunksize.
Sure you do not mean a negative value for "use".

File too large sounds like > max file size for the file system.
Generally a chunksize of 1GB would prevent that.  An unspecified
chunksize could allow chunks to grow too large.  Perhaps the
negative chunksize is interpreted as illegal and thus unspecified.

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