KBackup

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5 2GB limitation - ID: 516932

Last Update: Comment added ( frascone )

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Using KBackup version 1.2.9 (on RedHat 7.1) and 1.2.11
on a vanilla 2.4.17 linux for a 4GB backup (using afio)
it always finishes prematurely at 2047 MBytes.
Also the "backup size" function doesn't work (empty
string).
My first suspicion: maybe a tape length limit is still
applied when FILE is choosen as backup medium:
Looking into the scripts, I found:
maxarchivelength=`expr $tapelength -
$bytes_written`
but I can't find the location where the tapelength
variable gets a value assigned.
a "grep tapelength * " only shows:
kbackup: maxarchivelength=`expr $tapelength -
$bytes_written`
Q: Where gets this 'tapelength' variable it's value?

Any suggestion?

Submitted:

Nobody/Anonymous ( nobody ) - 2002-02-13 12:29

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Comments ( 3 )

Date: 2004-03-18 05:11 Sender: frascone Logged In: YES user_id=78392 Just checked in a fix supplied by rbonte (cvs only)
Date: 2004-03-17 02:37 Sender: rbonte Logged In: YES user_id=999757 This is a real bug in multibuf, because it is not compiled for large file access. I submitted a patch to fix this, but I'm not sure whether this works on all architectures (I'm on linux 2.4 where it works), as this is architecture-dependent. 64 bit systems have no problem with this limitation. ldrolez, please check your facts, before you say that this is not a problem. Remember that other users might base an important decision on your comments.
Date: 2002-09-03 18:56 Sender: ldrolez Logged In: YES user_id=49118 This is not a kbackup problem : It's a linux filesystem issue. ext2 has a 2GB limit. xfs, jfs and reiserfs have much higher limits.

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status_id	Open	2004-03-18 05:11	frascone
close_date	-	2004-03-18 05:11	frascone

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