Re: [BackupPC-users] What is the max file size on backups?

[Ski K. <kac...@co...>]

This works ok when I run tar just to a local file on the client:

tar -cvf test.tar /opt/www.

so it seems to be a problem with ssh and tar together.

ski

Ski Kacoroski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am backing up a linux server via tar and it consistently breaks on 
> 330MB video file with:
> 
> /opt/www/html/training_cd/lineitem_img/NWCC-IntroV'1.mpg
> tar: Read 6144 bytes from -
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> I have tested by this by running $Conf{TarClientCmd} and pipe it into 
> "tar -xvf .".  Just wondering what the upper limit on file size is as 
> this seems to be a problem with tar, not with BackupPC.
> 
> I have also tried rsync, but that fails consistently on a much smaller 
> *.jpg file.
> 
> I am using gnu tar version 1.14 and rsync version 2.6.3 (client), rsync 
> version 2.6.4 (backuppc server).
> 
> I can backup smaller directories and files, but once I try to do the 
> larger ones it fails.
> 
> Any help in figuring out what is going on is really appreciated 
> (especially ideas to help me debug this).
> 
> cheers,
> 
> ski
> 

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