[Samba] Still trying to backup 66 GB from LINUX to W2K ***

[Rashkae]

As an unrelated, and posibly easy, work-around.  Are you able to pipe
the file through the split command as you back it up?  Even when I
have everythign working with large files, I find splitting my backup
files at 1GB just makes them easier to work with all around.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:55:51AM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 
> I do not want to nit pick, but please note that smbfs is not samba.
> smbfs is a kernel driver in Linux.
> 
> smbclient is part of Samba. You should be able to use it to backup your
> files to a Win2K system and it should not be 2GB limited.
> 
> - John T.
> 
> 
> > Hello, Carsten.Loeffler at command.de,
> >
> > Mittwoch, 19. November 2003, 17:09 you wrote:
> >
> > CLcd> Hi Everyone.
> >
> > CLcd> I'm still having that problem that my samba cannot backup more
> > CLcd> than 2 GB onto a Windows share (on a Win2K box) (see messages
> > CLcd> earlier in this forum - I have to backup a 66 GB file out of database).
> >
> > On the other hand, David Morel has sent me this:
> >
> > > for the last time, the 2Gb limitation is a problem with smbfs in 2.4
> > > kernels (which smbmount uses). To circumvent it, either find urban
> > > widmark's patches or use cifs with a 2.6 kernel.
> > >
> > > D.Morel
> >
> > I have not noticed that facts in my setup.
> >
> >
> 
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> John H Terpstra
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