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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Robin Dunn on December 12, 2001, 05:35:39 AM
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I've setup flexbackup to write to disk using the HowTo at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/flexbackup-to-disk-howto.htm, and it works unless there is more than about 2G of compressed data to be written, then it fails like this:
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DUMP: 8.44% done, finished in 3:36
DUMP: 10.13% done, finished in 3:41
DUMP: 11.77% done, finished in 3:44
DUMP: Broken pipe
DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
The filesystem being dumped to is NTFS and I know it can handle large files as I've backed up a separate workstation to it and the result is a 24G backup file.
I know about the 2G filesize limit on Linux filesystems, but it kinda surprised me that it also happens when accessing a remote smbfs filesystem too. So my question is, is there a way to get around the 2G limit when writing to a smbfs filesytem that can handle larger files? Or alternativly, is there a way to configure flexbackup such that it outputs a series of dump files that are each < 2G?
TIA,
--Robin