Eduardo Trápani wrote:

> I tried many programs, in Windows and Linux, to no avail.
>
> The problem was that Backuppc (actuallly the perl zip module)  
> created the zip file on the fly, with the normal 32bit headers,  
> without knowing that it would be bigger than 2G.  Whenever a program  
> tried to get the "central directory", at the end of the zip file, it  
> would actually land in the middle of the file.
>
> There were other problems too but, anyway, what I did was code a  
> small program that "walks" all entries and dumps them.  I created  
> the directory structure first.  Good thing that the files were not  
> compressed.

Did you try BackupPC_tarCreate? I believe that tar works better for  
these large files.

Nils Breunese.
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