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

[Brian B. <bb...@my...>]

I'm using the latest version of SME Server, and during the 
installation/upgrade all partitions are upgraded to EXT3.  That should 
take care of things for you.

Cheers,
BB

PS: Flexbackup is working great for me, Edwin.

Brian Barber
Ottawa, ON   CANADA
brian dot barber at mysun dot com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyrus Bharda" <cy...@la...>
Date: Sunday, February 16, 2003 8:07 pm
Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] > 2 GB Backup question

> 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 
> individualfiles 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/dum: 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
> 
> 
> 
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