RE: [flexbackup-help] backup error

[Bjorn G. <bj...@gr...>]

I didn't want to use zip, I thought it was a reference to gzip. I've changed
it now to tar and it works fine. Thanks for the help!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edwin Huffstutler [mailto:ed...@co...]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 6:53 PM
> To: Bjorn Graabek
> Cc: fle...@li...
> Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] backup error
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> [ Bjorn Graabek wrote: ]
> > I just installed and ran flexbackup for the first time. While
> it looks like
> > it has what I need, it didn't finish the backup, ending with an error
> > message. Here are relevant entries from the log file:
> >
>
> (Do you really want to use "zip"???  It has to make tmp files.  Not really
> fun when you are making large archives.. If you are using it just so that
> windows can deal with the archives, winzip understands .tar.gz just fine,
> or cygwin of course...)
>
>
> Anyway, it could be something besides the size.  If you turn verbose off,
> did find or zip compalin about anything else?  That could cause them to
> exit with non-zero status.
>
> Anyway, in your above sample the only thing that needs 2+Gb support is the
> "zip" binary.
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