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

[Carsten Loeffler]

Hi Everyone.

So far: thanks to everyone for the support. I was offline for 2 days,
but tonight I've spent again some time at home on that problem.

My configuration at home is slightly different: I'm using WinXP Pro
instead of W2K Server and I'm using Suse 8.2 instead if Suse
Enterprise Server 8. Kernel release is 2.4.20, Samba is 3.0.1 pre.

To verify that this is not just a simple tar or whatever problem
tonight from my Linux box I made a "dd" and tried to create
a file larger than 4 gb on my Windows box.

And again I've received "File size limit exceeded"
At that byte-count: 2.147.483.647 Bytes. BUT: there's nothing in
the samba actionlog. I only found a message about mounting the
share.

By the way: I'm still using NTFS; nothing else.

Thanks for your advices to try smbtar or rexec. It won't help me.
Because my database only supports to start a backup -- I only can
tell it where to backup to and when (timely); and that's it. I cannot
split or something like that unfortunately.

Thanks again.

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Carsten Löffler
Email: carsten.loeffler at t-online.de