-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Adnan Olia wrote:
> even if that had been a very common subject already, i still have this > one big (litterary) problem. I want to backup our main school systems, > based on a Win2k fileserver, to a linux box with samba 2.2.7a and red > hat 7.3 with kernel 2.4. The backupfile, created by the windows backup > utility, is bigger than 11 Gbyte. I tried nearly every possible way, > with smaller files (of course), smbclient tar and get. but a big file is > not transferable. At least, the filesize is no displayed correctly. but > the file is always either cut of in the middle, or just grows infintive. > I tried taring whole directories over smbclient, that worked, the file > was good and big (5.3G, but many small files transfered, of course). I > thought that the file size limit from 4 gbyte was not applicant any > more.. or am i wrong? am I just totally confused? does anybody have any > option on how to fix this problem? thx patrick Please send me some more details. Are you using smbclient to transfer to >2Gb file? Or are you copying it to the Samba box from a windows client? cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc ISBN 0-672-32269-2 "SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed "You can never go home again, Oatman, but I guess you can shop there." --John Cusack - "Grosse Point Blank" (1997) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE9/eU8IR7qMdg1EfYRAu8zAKCqVT6srlgg7acF3Onj0tQInbJ9nACeILY3 KlJ8nNsCLK9HZE3UzUowtpg= =Qbh7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba