There are two points at which you'll run into problems:
1) At the 2GB barrier
2) At the point at which you exceed smbclient's timeout value, which
naturally depends on the speed of your network, hard drives, and the size
of your timeout value
> thank you for that!
>
> any experiences with SMB and
thank you for that!
any experiences with SMB and large files? with updated smbclients, when are
we likely to run into problems?
thanks a lot!
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Pedro M. S. Oliveira <
pmsolive...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Currently I have some vmware machine files with over 120GB an
Currently I have some vmware machine files with over 120GB and the backups go
smooth.
I've used tar and rsync but I've had trouble when I had compression > 6.
The specs for the backup server are Dell rack server 2x dual core, 6x 750GB
SATAII with raid 5, 6TB ram, raid controller has 512 MB.
Thi
I'm actually really interested in hearing the answer to this too!!!
Pst files are reaching 5-6 gigs now, and I'm just about to check to see of
they ARE being backed up, or not!
But what are the limits, using a new version of smbclient? How about rsync
using a new version of cwrsyncd?
The FAQ su
Hi All
The FAQ here
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html#maximum_backup_file_sizes
suggests there are limitations to the maximum size of a file that can
be backed up, specifically when using GNUtar or smbclient.
I have several users running VirtualBox under Ubuntu and, regularly,
