Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore problems

[Brien Dieterle]

It sounds a lot like you've hit some bugs in cygwin/rsync/smb bugs? from the faq: Smbclient is limited to 4GB file sizes. Moreover, a bug in smbclient (mixing signed and unsigned 32 bit values) causes it to incorrectly do the tar octal conversion for file sizes from 2GB-4GB. BackupPC_tarExtract knows about this bug and can recover the correct file size. So smbclient transport works up to 4GB file sizes. Rsync running on Cygwin is limited to either 2GB or 4GB file sizes. More testing needs to be done to verify the file size limit for rsync on various platforms. brien Ed Burgstaler wrote: I'm running BackupPC v3x and have had no issues with regard to doing backups both rsync for Linux and rsyncd from Windows machines. I'm am having issues however, with doing restore opperations. I have a Windows 2000 server which I having been successfully backing up every day and I want to restore the data drive on this server to (an alternate location) a new Windows 2003 server using the rsyncd method. What happens is that the restore goes fine for about the first 4GB of data and then eventually comes back with a "cannot read 4 bytes" restore failed error. I tried a couple times but the same thing keeps happening. I then thought that I would try the TAR restore option but again all went well until it reached 3.99GB and then the transfer seems to stop as the is no futher activity in the pop-up transfer window. My transfer rate seemed to maintain at around 5MB/sec throughout the transfer.   My question is what could be wrong as it is great to see all your files that have been backed-up but it's useless if you cannot restore them. I know that some of you likely have restores or backups that are far larger than my 40 or 50GB.   Any assistance greatly appreciated.   Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

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