[TriLUG] Thanksfor all the responses to my backup question...

[Glenn Hennessee]

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
> 
> 
> [leep at Haussr /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:
> 
> [leep at haussr /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
> 
> 
> [leep at haussr /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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