I agree Glenn, that was my thought too in terms of the backup software.
By the way, the external is a 300 gig, but thats neither here nor there
in terms of being part of the issue. Just thought I mention it for
clarity sake.
D-
Glenn Hennessee wrote:
fat32 has a 4 GB file size limit. Why you were choking at 2 GB I don't
know. Maybe a function of the backup software?
glenn
dsandif wrote:
Thanks to all who've responded to my earlier backup software query. I
want apologize for not being clearer as to what is going on and why I
need this so here's a quick explanation.
Previously, we were using flexbackup (not fsbackup) to backup small
amounts of data to an external usb hard disk. The format of the
external disk was Fat32 and we didn't have any problems until we got
to a point where we were backing up large data sets over 2 gigs or
more, then we started running into problems where the backup would
start to fail after a point, usually around two gigs or so (See
attachment). At first we thought it was the usb drives so we got a
new drive. Then we looked at the formatting of the drives as a
possible issue and finally the backup program itself. Decided to
reformat the external hard drive to ext3 and try flexbackup again,
(fat32 would not handle files with specific naming conventions). Here
is the following command to do so:
you need to run:
/sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
and this will convert your external hard drive from fat32 to ext3.
Not sure what to do beyond this point but we will try to do a backup
again. In the meanwhile, thanks for your input and suggestions & I
welcome additional comments and advice.
D-
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I cannot get past this error when trying to do a backup
to an external hard disk mounted on my linux system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]$ flexbackup -version
flexbackup version 1.2.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
$Id: flexbackup,v 1.185 2003/10/10 14:12:09 edwinh Exp $
flexbackup -set leep
. ...(many files)...
.
.
a Site/MSH/REV.266.HSR.EHZ_0000.png 28090 bytes, 55 tape blocks
a Site/MSH/REV.267.HSR.EHZ_0000.pdf 18397810 bytes, 35934 tape blocks
a Site/MSH/REV.267.HSR.EHZ_0000.png 83390 bytes, 163 tape blocks
a Site/MSH/REV.268.HSR.EHZ_0000.pdf 18301315 bytes, 35745 tape blocks
a Site/MSH/REV.268.HSR.EHZ_0000.png 116094 bytes, 227 tape blocks
a Site/MSH/REV.269.HSR.EHZ_0000.pdf 18507146 bytes, 36147 tape blocks
/tmp/collectexit.4533.sh: line 2: 4547 File size limit exceeded"$@"
star: Operation not supported. Sync pipe read error on pid 4548 flags
0x1.
star: fifo had 166214 puts 1289775 gets.
star: fifo was 89 times empty and 2877 times full.
star: fifo held 8396800 bytes max, size was 8396800 bytes
star: 1289775 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 13207296000 bytes =
12897750.00k).
ERROR: non-zero exit from:
cat
gzip -4
star -c list=- -p -l -D -B -dirmode VOLHDR=level 0 /home/lees Wed May
24 09:28:17 2006 star+gzip from haussr.grep.unc.edu H=exustar -fifo
-fifostats -acl -v -sparse file=-
find . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex .*/[Cc]ache/.* ! -regex .*~$
-print
ERROR: exiting
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Wed May 24 09:28:17 2006
| Backup end: Wed May 24 09:40:09 2006
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Compressing log (lees.0.200605240928.gz)
| Linking leep.latest.gz -> leep.0.200605240928.gz
|------------------------------------------------------------
### my limits are okay:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]$ limit
cputime unlimited
filesize unlimited
datasize unlimited
stacksize 10240 kbytes
coredumpsize 0 kbytes
memoryuse unlimited
vmemoryuse unlimited
descriptors 1024
memorylocked 32 kbytes
maxproc 16379
### my OS information
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]$ uname -a
Linux grep.grep.unc.edu 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 24 16:56:28 EST
2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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