From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 2 16:32:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ib.rc.vix.com (ib.rc.vix.com [204.152.187.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8FD14CAE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:32:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Peter.Losher@iengines.com) Received: from bb.rc.vix.com (bb.rc.vix.com [204.152.187.11]) by ib.rc.vix.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) via ESMTP id QAA13238; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:32:45 -0800 (PST) env-from (Peter.Losher@iengines.com) Received: from localhost (plosher@localhost) by bb.rc.vix.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) via ESMTP id QAA25498; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:32:44 -0800 (PST) env-from (Peter.Losher@iengines.com) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:32:44 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Losher To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "File too large" in Amanda restore? In-Reply-To: <200001022341.SAA07523@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > This is probably because you're using NFSv2 which has a 2 GB filesize > limit. NFSv3 isn't limited to 2 GB so if you can use v3 that will help. > If not, you need to use a different method to move the data over the net. Hmm, is there a way to check which version of NFS a server is using? (and if the system is running NFSv2, how to force it to use v3? As I said before, it's 3.4-STABLE > Rather than assume the problem is FreeBSD I would assume the problem is > that you're looking for the answer to an amanda problem on a FreeBSD > list. Most of the Amanda people are on amanda-users@amanda.org. > Believe me, people have had this problem... I would agree, however we also had a problem with scp'ing a 3GB file over to this same box, the .tar file always came up corrupt when de-tarred (we think this is a scp problem though)... SO I was, perhaps in error, linking the two... Best Wishes - Peter | Peter Losher | SysAdmin - iEngines, Inc. | Peter.Losher@iengines.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message