Re: [rdiff-backup-users] IOError: [Errno 75] Value too large for defined

[Dominic Raferd]

On 11/05/2011 12:01, Bruno Basilio wrote:
> > > > I suppose you want to use NTFS for backup in order to at the same time produce
> > > > MSWin compatible files. If not, just reformat your USB into EXT3 or 4. (and my
> > > > further comments are superfluos)
> > > Do you need to use NTFS for the external drive? I suggest you try again using
> > > a Linux format such as ext3 and see if you have more success.
> > > My impression is that a high proportion of problems with rdiff-backup relate
> > > to backups to NTFS volumes (backup *from* NTFS generally works fine).
> > BTW, I see open source utility Ext2Read 
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
> > allows a Windows machine to read and copy from Ext2/3/4 (including using LVM2)
> > filesystems.
> Since the backups are being made in Linux I will consider using Ext2
> or FAT32 as destiny, but sharing files with Windows is an important
> issue.

You could use samba on a *nix machine to share with Windows. Or use 
rdiffweb or rdiff-backup.exe (Windows version) to recover direct from 
the *nix repositories.

Dominic
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