Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Failing on 11GB file - other large files working

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "Ty!" == ty  <Ty!>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:10:26 -0600

  Ty!> We've been doing nightly backups for a couple of weeks now
  Ty!> without any problems, and then a user throws another kink at
  Ty!> us.  I've attached a trace below of the entire backup run, but
  Ty!> the file it is failing on is an 11GB file, of which about 5GB
  Ty!> shows up on the backup mirror.
    ...
  Ty!> Any ideas on how to get large files like this (this file will
  Ty!> have very large block-level differences) to get backed up
  Ty!> successfully?

Try 0.12.1.  The librsync block size is not set based on the file
size.  I just tested it successfully two totally random (made using dd
on /dev/urandom) 12GB files, although this operation still took 4
hours.


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Ben Escoto

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