2008/12/16 Damodharan .K <damod...@gmail.com>: > what is your samba share filesystem? if it is fat16 Maximum file size will > be 2 GB. >
It is NTFS, with max file size much greater than that (Theoretically in order of terabytes) Venkatesh Nandakumar > Regards, > > Damodharan.K > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Venkatesh Nandakumar <venkates...@gmail.com >> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've mounted a samba share (smbfs), and tit wried to backup my files, to >> it. >> I tried 3 methods, using file-roller GUI(creating tar on mounted >> drive), normal 'cp -R' method, and rsync. All of them failed in >> between, because some (2) files are very large in size, 2.9GB, and >> 4.3GB. >> What could possibly be the mistake? It usually gives some message >> like, "Large File Size", or something, rsync just fails, with some >> error. >> >> Will creating an iso, with 'dd' help/work? >> >> Also, I want to include all hidden files, so, should I need to turn >> 'shopt dotglob' on? >> >> Thanks, >> Venkatesh Nandakumar >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with >> "unsubscribe <password> <address>" >> in the subject or body of the message. >> http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with > "unsubscribe <password> <address>" > in the subject or body of the message. > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc