[rdiff-backup-users] Re: ?: use rdiff-backup to bacup a rdiff-backup

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi Keith,
* Keith Edmunds <address@hidden> [03. Sep. 2003]:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:29:07 +0200
> Gregor Zattler <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Question:  Can i use rdiff-backup to make a copy of my
> > rdiff-backup directories on that share and resore later to ext3? 
> 
> You could tar the rdiff-backup directories up to one tarfile, then
> restore it later.

Since, as i wrote in my post, there is a large file support
problem using vanilla kernel 2.4.x and smbmount this is not
possible for me.

Thats' the reason why i want to backup with rdiff-backup:  The
individual files all are smaller than 2 GB.

Ciao; gregor