Clever Monkey wrote:
> jch wrote:
>> After i figured out that i should be using release 3.6 to do a restore
>> job, i ran into another issue. Restore needs the /tmp directory as
>> working storage. When i restore a large system, the /tmp directory in
>> RAM fills up instantly. To solve this problem, the restore man page
>> says to set environment variable TMPDIR=/some_large_mounted_directory.
>> Fine. When i do this, the restore does not recognise the environment
>> variable properly, and the restore fails as /tmp fills up. Yet, it
>> shows up as set when i ask for it via "set". Is this a known problem?
>>
> If the restore process is a subshell, you might have to export that
> variable.
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Of course. I keep forgetting to issue the export command! One should
always do it for good measure after setting an environment variable.
Thanks.
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Regards / JCH