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

[dsandif]

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-
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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