Topic: Is it possible: 6.0.1 Backup -> Restore to 7.2

[pfloor]

Paul

7.2 does not have the 2gb restore limit anymore

I didn't see mention of that anywhere. Was the reason for the limitation discovered and was something fixed ie what ?

Ray, you are so correct.  I was mixing up the "restore from usb disk" option during install with "restore from desktop".  Restore fom desktop still has this limit but you can take a >2GB tar file and restore from a usb disk.

I must quite trying to work and answer forum posts at the same time

[raem]

paul

Restore fom desktop still has this limit but you can take a >2GB tar file and restore from a usb disk.

Thanks. No worries.

[slords]

Have you tried a "Backup to desktop"?  6gb may compress down to less than 4gb and if so, should be successful.  7.2 does not have the 2gb restore limit anymore and you should be able to "Restore from desktop" even with a tar file larger than 2gb.

It still has the restore limit.  It doesn't have the backup limit anymore.

I've done a 52Gb backup to desktop.  Put the backup file on a ext3 formatted usb device and restored just fine to a new 7.2 install.