I cannot get past this error when trying to do a backup
to an external hard disk mounted on my linux system


[leep@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@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@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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