> Hello there... thanks for all your thoughts and feedbacks... > > > > Indeed, the splitting would be OK, but still: I'm in need > > of backing > > > up a *big file* which may change in some bytes... > > > > Also you have to make sure that that file doesn't change > > while you are backing/splitting it up otherwise you may be > > unable to restore it (been there, not pretty trying to > > recover a corrupted NTFS filesystem). > > As far as I know by now is that I'd have to backup with backuppc just > "copies" of VM images. This should mean that on the other side there is > already a tool which creates copies of those VM images, thus I shouldn't > need to care about any corruption at all (it's not my duty).
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