Katrinka Dall wrote:
>Hello,
>
>
> I must say that I'm completely stumped, trying everything I can
>possibly think of, I've decided to post this here in hopes that one of
>you can help me out. Recently I had to migrate our backup server from a
>Solaris 2.5.1 machine to a Linux 6.2 machine. In the process of doing
>this, I found that I was unable to get one of the Linux machines that we
>had been backing up to work properly. I keep getting this error
>whenever I try to do a dump on this machine/filesystem:
>
>
> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
>
>/-- xxxxxx.p /dev/sdb1 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: File too large"]
>sendbackup: start [xxxxx.xxxxx.xxx.xxxxx.com:/dev/sdb1 level 0]
>sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
>sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
>sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
>sendbackup: info end
>\--------
>
> Now, I know that this isn't an issue of not having enough space on the
>tape or holding disk, both are in excess of 35G. Some of the things I
>have tried are, upgrading tar on the server that is failing, upgrading
>the backup server from RedHat 6.2 to 7.1, and using every available
>version of Amanda. Currently I am using Amanda-2.4.2p2. The client
>that I'm having these problems on is a RedHat 5.1 (kernel 2.0.36)
>machine.
>
>If you have any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate them. Oh, and one
>more thing, when we were running these backups from the Solaris machine,
>they did not produce this error, and I had about a quarter of the space
>on tape and holding disk that I have now.
>
Seems your Linux version can handle only files up to 2GB in size. Either
define CHUNK_SIZE smaller than that, or install an OS which handles
bigger files.
HTH
-Christoph Sold
