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. > If your doing a straight restore (i.e. not downloading a zip file) then you shouldn't have a problem as it will restore files individually. The 4gb limit thing is more to do with a single file size limit. So if you've got 40gb of thousands of files and not one of them is > 4gb it should restore fine. On the other hand if you are trying to restore/download via a zip archive then it will fail at 4gb because of the single file limitation.
If you are getting errors doing the straight restore to the other host then what is getting restroed needs to be investigated - i.e. what files/folders where they are going to etc etc, what if any errors in log files, including the rsyncd.log file on the windows server. Regards, Les ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
