Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Large files

[Ben]

Ok I checked the version:
Capabilities: 64 bit files, gzip, bzip2, trace disabled

So thats good.
I ran an rdiff test:

ls -lh
total 2.3G
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        2.2G Jun  1 15:25 bigfile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          92M Jun  1 17:34 bigfile2

rdiff signature bigfile2 bigfile2.sig
rdiff delta bigfile2.sig bigfile bigfile1-2.delta
rdiff patch bigfile2 bigfile1-2.delta newbigfile

ls -lh
total 4.9G
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2.2G Jun  1 15:25 bigfile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         546M Jun  1 17:45 bigfile1-2.delta
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          92M Jun  1 17:34 bigfile2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         548K Jun  1 17:39 bigfile2.sig
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2.2G Jun  1 17:50 newbigfile

So it looks like this actually worked. I will try it on the remote host
and see if the same thing happens. I read that people were getting these
errors when running those commands.

Also, I recompiled librsync as a shared library. I also noticed that it
puts the libraries in /usr/local/lib and rdiff-backup was looking in
/usr/lib. I re-installed rdiff-backup to use /usr/local/lib rsync
libraries and re-ran rdiff-backup (done this on both machines). This
didn't seem to make a difference though.



On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 17:42, Martin Pool wrote:
> On  1 Jun 2004, Paul P Komkoff Jr <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Replying to Ben:
> > > rsync actually works:
> > > 
> > > rsync -auvroge ssh address@hidden:test test
> > 
> > rsync isn't dependent on librsync.
> > 
> > If you are compiling and installing librsync yourself, from sources,
> > you can do 'make test' or 'make check' (trouble remembering exact
> > command) in librsync build directory. It should pass all tests.
> 
> Yes, it should, but I don't think the 'make check' in 0.9.6 tests that
> large files work.  It should probably have that as an optional test,
> given how much trouble it has caused. 
> 
> You can try './rdiff --version' which will tell you if it thinks it
> supports large files, but that might not be correct.