Re: [BackupPC-users] file extraction, windows

[dan <dan...@gm...>]

zip does not have a 2GB limit.  you can use Backuppc_zipCreate to make a
very large zip file, well over 2GB, just not through the CGI interface.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Tino Schwarze <bac...@ti...>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:26:42AM -0600, Daniel Denson wrote:
> > I think that this has been hashed over for some time now.  It seems that
> > windows will only handle a 2GB zip file via the CGI interface for no
> > apparently good reason.  You can either do BackupPC_zipCreate on the
> > backuppc machine and save it to your windows machine via samba or
> > something OR you can just choose tar for your restore and then
> > compresses that if you like.
>
> IIRC, ZIP has a 2 GB file size limit - only 32bit integers in there for
> file size.
>
> Tino.
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