| Stephen Gran on Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:46:04 -0400 |
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 06:08:31PM -0400, Mark Dominus said: > The -B option limits the size of each volume file to 1GB each, to > evade the ext2fs file extent limit of 2GB. steve@gashuffer:~$ ls -lh movies/ total 12G -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 4.5G 2003-08-27 23:53 Knights.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 4.3G 2003-08-17 12:35 Knights_Tale.mpeg The 2 gig limit hasn't been a problem for a while, last I heard. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't had any problem with either of these files. Maybe it's because this is ext3? But I thought that was essentially ext2 with a journalling system on top. Please correct me if I'm wrong. > Probably there's a better tool for the job that I don't know about. > Does anyone have any suggestions for some other tool, or some way to > fix one of the problems I mentioned above? If you just want reliability, and it's on the same machine, I would either set up something like software raid or lvm, or if that seems like to much trouble, have you considered cp -a? :) Sometimes simplicity works best. I realize it'll copy unnecessarily most of the time, but if you're not looking for incremental backup (with restore from previous version functionality) it's quick, robust, and simple. HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Save gas, don't use the shell. | | steve@lobefin.net | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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