/sbin/restore cannot restore large nfs UFS filesystem

From: Richard Loken <tech_at_athabascau.ca>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:07:00 -0600 (MDT)

The tape drive is a 40Gbyte DLT.
The filesystem is an nfs mounted 55Gbyte UFS HSZ80 raid 5 partition.

I have a 55Gbyte UFS partition which I cannot restore. I had this problem
occur in the past and I increased the process memory limit kernel parameters
to 4Gbyte and I was able to continue but now the file system is is getting
about 1/4 full with lots of directories and lots of small files (these are
user IMAP mail directories) and I can no longer do a restore. I typically
use the much maligned C-shell like this:

        # unlimit
        # /sbin/restore -if /dev/tape

I then get this message in a very few seconds:

        Cannot malloc space for property list, errno 22

It seems like a virtual memory quota problem but I can't seem to make the
quotas big enough the the greedy little fellow. Are there any suggestions?

  Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
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  Athabasca, Alberta Canada : are naked!"
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