As an unrelated, and posibly easy, work-around. Are you able to pipe the file through the split command as you back it up? Even when I have everythign working with large files, I find splitting my backup files at 1GB just makes them easier to work with all around.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:55:51AM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I do not want to nit pick, but please note that smbfs is not samba. > smbfs is a kernel driver in Linux. > > smbclient is part of Samba. You should be able to use it to backup your > files to a Win2K system and it should not be 2GB limited. > > - John T. > > > > Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > > > Mittwoch, 19. November 2003, 17:09 you wrote: > > > > CLcd> Hi Everyone. > > > > CLcd> I'm still having that problem that my samba cannot backup more > > CLcd> than 2 GB onto a Windows share (on a Win2K box) (see messages > > CLcd> earlier in this forum - I have to backup a 66 GB file out of database). > > > > On the other hand, David Morel has sent me this: > > > > > for the last time, the 2Gb limitation is a problem with smbfs in 2.4 > > > kernels (which smbmount uses). To circumvent it, either find urban > > > widmark's patches or use cifs with a 2.6 kernel. > > > > > > D.Morel > > > > I have not noticed that facts in my setup. > > > > > > -- > John H Terpstra > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
