Message-Id: <200106181525.f5IFP1918677@jen.americas.sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lukas <christoph.lukas@gmx.net>
cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: using xfsdump with 'file device' 
In-Reply-To: Message from Christoph Lukas <christoph.lukas@gmx.net> 
   of "Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:30:32 +0200." <0106181630320C.01455@skera> 
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:25:01 -0500
From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
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> Hi,
> 
> we would like to use xfsdump to backup one of our xfs filesystems onto 
> another hard disk. Therefore I tried:
> 
> xfsdump -l0 -F -f /mnt/backupfile /dev/sda3
> 
> Although we are running kernel 2.4.3 and glibc _with_ >2GB support (tried 
> with 'dd if=/dev/null of=/mnt/testfile' ) xfsdump exits after dumping 2GB 
> with:
> 
> xfsdump: creating dump session media file 0 (media 0, file 0)
> xfsdump: dumping ino map
> xfsdump: dumping directories
> xfsdump: dumping non-directory files
> File size limit exceeded


This is odd, I just created a 2621561952 byte dump file here. Where did you
get the xfsdump program from - an RPM we built, or did you compile it yourself?

There are current command rpms here:

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/cmd_rpms/

which should be identical to the version I just tested with.

Steve


> 
> is there any possibility to exceed this limit (compile time option?) or any 
> easy alternative to work with multiple 2GB files (like the ordinary dump 
> does)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Christoph