Re: RE: [BackupPC-users] Restoring large files

2006-04-28 Thread marksma
I was using SMB for backups of Windows machines, and had no problem with large files. However, the SMB restore always exited when I reached the 2Gb limit when attempted to restore a file larger than 2Gb. I experimented with SMB from the command line, and there is no problem restoring files of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring large files

2006-04-28 Thread Andy
Justin Best wrote: Given the resounding /silence/ that I have received in reply to my posts, I’m guessing that either a) Nobody here needs to be able to restore files >2GB on Windows, /or/ b) Nobody here uses the SMB transfer method to restore large files to Windows, they use rsyn

RE: [BackupPC-users] Restoring large files

2006-04-28 Thread Justin Best
Given the resounding silence that I have received in reply to my posts, I’m guessing that either a)   Nobody here needs to be able to restore files >2GB on Windows, or b)   Nobody here uses the SMB transfer method to restore large files to Windows, they use rsync or some other tra

Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} output to /dev/null

2006-04-28 Thread Craig Barratt
"Rein" writes: > This is likely due to me not speaking Perl, but what's the best way to > achieve ? > > Here's how it works for me now -- is there a better way? > > I'm using an expect script to shut the computer down after the backup > completes, but I don't want the output of that script to

[BackupPC-users] $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} output to /dev/null

2006-04-28 Thread Rein
Hi. This is likely due to me not speaking Perl, but what's the best way to achieve ? Here's how it works for me now -- is there a better way? I'm using an expect script to shut the computer down after the backup completes, but I don't want the output of that script to end up in the transfer l