Re: [flexbackup-help] >2G for file system backups

[Edwin H. <ed...@co...>]

[ Richard Houston wrote: ]
> I have a backup server that runs RH 6.2 and can not be updated due to
> hardware support issues on the scsi card. I am making tar.gz files and
> have to backup 8.5 gig of data each night which turns out to be 3.5 gigs
> compressed. This is off a remote server.
> 
> I was wondering if there is any way to split large backup files into
> smaller files on the fly with flexbackup. I currently use split to do
> the job with tar and gzip.
> 
> Any suggestions?


Ummm.. not really.  I thought 2.2 kernels didn't have large file support,
so you are probably stuck with "split" or something similar.

flexbackup could be taught to use split & multiple files when making
on-disk archives (and putting them back together again for reads) but I'm
not really that inclined to add it...

If you really can't update the machine, perhaps you could split the backup
into 2 or more subdirs that archive to <2GB (compressed)?


Maybe this link will help - down the page there is a blurb about RH 6.2 and
tweaking it for LFS support (it seems the kernel/glibc support were in 6.2
but older versions of bash and pam limit things to 32 bits...)

  http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html



 -Edwin


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