Re: [flexbackup-help] rsync and cpio

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

[ Maher Atwah wrote: ] 
> I would like to use flexbackup to backup large filesystems to another
> server filesystem. I have specified the copy option and that uses cpio.
> The problem with cpio is that it fails with any file over 2GB. I
> recompiled cpio with 64 option and that causes any file over 2GB to be
> copied as 0 bytes.
> 
> Is there a way to get cpio to work for files over 2GB?

It depends on the system you are using and how cpio was compiled.

 
> The other question, the online documentation of the configuration file
> specify that it is possible to use copy and rsync for disk mode:
> "'copy' or 'rsync' are extra options if running in archive-to-disk
> mode."
> 
> But when I specify "rsync" it errors with option not supported. I have
> downloaded and installed "RedHat 9 RPM: flexbackup-1.2.0-1.noarch.rpm".
> How can I get rsync to work?


The rsync stuff is checked in, but I didn't make a real release with it
yet. If you pull CVS it'll be there, or there was a test
"flexbackup-1.2.1a.tar.gz" you can find in www.flexbackup.org/tarball I
think.

(Note you'll also need rsync >= 2.5.6.)

 -Edwin

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