Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity with FAT32 backup disk

[Michael Terry]

You will also probably need to pass the --short-filenames flag for FAT disks.

-mt

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Kennon Ballou <address@hidden> wrote:
> By default, duplicity uses volumes of 10mb (I believe). You can specify how
> large you want the files with --volsize.
>
> If the final tar/gzipped set of volumes is larger than 4gb, then duplicity
> (well, tar actually) might crap out in the middle after filling up the disk.
> What does tar do when it runs out of space?
>
> You might try backing up to your hard drive, and then copying over the
> volume files to your usb stick (or just making sure that you have less than
> 4gb total backed up.
>
> KB
>
> Eric Lynch wrote:
>>
>> I would like to use duplicity to backup my home directory to a USB
>> disk, formatted FAT32.  If I do:
>>
>>  duplicity $HOME file:///media/usbdisk/target_dir
>>
>> will I run into problems with FAT32's 4 GB file size limit if $HOME is
>> larger than 4 GB?  I ask because of the statement on the duplicity
>> home page that says "Duplicity backs directories by producing
>> encrypted tar-format volumes...".  Does duplicity create a single tar
>> file containing the entire backup?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
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