Re: [flexbackup-help] > 2 GB Backup question

[Cyrus B. <cy...@la...>]

Wow first off thank you for your speedy responce!

:
: If the SME core utils are from RedHat 7.x it should handle >2GB files just
: fine - large file support has been around a while.
:

That is what I thought, but it is using the ext2 file system, which only has
a 2 GB file limit or so I have been told as I am a bit off a noob.

: I'm not sure if the SME setup uses "buffer" or not, but buffer needs a
: compilation tweak to read/write >2GB files.  If you are just using dd it
: should be fine.
:

When you say there in the paragraph above, do you mean that SME will need
buffer if I wanted to write a >2GB file to the backup file or write a >2GB
backup file? Like say I had 3 x 2.3GB files then I would need buffer to be
able to back them up and that if I had 3 x 1.7GB files to backup on the
RedHat box TO the share then flexbackup doesnt need buffer as the individual
files are not >2GB but the total backup file that flexbackup will create
will be >2GB, right? Sorry for the drawn out explanation, but I am a bit of
a noob here.

: Basically any 2GB limits will come from the utilities used in the pipeline
: - dd/buffer/dump/afio/whatever, or in the underlying filesystem (smbfs in
: your case), and not from flexbackup itself.
:

I am not sure what this distro uses as it is developed for newbies and is
all web driven, I click on the backup now button and it just does the rest
for me, so I will enquire on what pipline is used. How do I find out the
size limits for the different pipelines used as once I find out which
pipline is used that will be the next question :-).

Now I just need to find out if there is any file size limitations on smbfs
:-)

Thanks again for your help, it is very much appreciated!!

Cyrus Bharda