Re: [BackupPC-users] How to restore an 8GB archive file?

[Dale K. <da...@da...>]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:33:10AM +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> 
> OTOH, ext3 is said to have a max file size limit from about 16GB up to some 2TB,
> depending on block size. So why I would have a problem with an 8GB file is
> anybody's guess.

I don't think you had a problem with the filesystem.  More likely it was a
ulimit issue of the user account you were using to restore the file.
Check the output of 'ulimit -a' within the user account to see if that was
the case.