rontelta@fwi.uva.nl (Richard Ronteltap (I87)) (05/01/91)
A friend of mine has the following problem: He has XENIX/386 2.3.1 and a 120MB disk with one 120MB partition. His system was backed up with backup(C) an a 120MB tape. Due to hardware failure he lost some critical and large data files. Using restore(C), however, gives the message 'too may inodes'. Even when used to restore only one file. So: Big Arghhh Is there a limit on the number of inodes that restore can handle? It seems so. The silly and dangerous thing is that backup(C) worked ok and gave no error messages. I think the backup on the tape is in tact. Maybe there is an upgrade for the restore program with increased limits? Does restore malloc() the space for the inodes? I.e. can more memory solve the problem? German XENIX support wasn't very helpfull. Can anyone here help? The guy has been off-line for allmost two weeks now... Richard (rontelta@fwi.uva.nl)