>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:34 PM
>To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support'
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to restore an 8GB archive file?
>
>>On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:38 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>>> A user came to me this morning asking me to restore a folder which turns out
to
>>> be some 8,5GB.
>>
>>Why don't you just restore it back to his machine, using the typical
>>option 1? If BackupPC archived it in the first place, it can restore it
>>the same way.
>
>I've never had that option to work. This time I got a weird "unable to read
>4 bytes"-error when trying a direct restore.

Problem temporarily solved by getting the 8GB-tar file from BPC on old 32b
server, using Firefox on new x64 BPC-server to a ext4-partition on the same
(new) machine. Untarring went fine. Now scping the extracted contents to user's
machine.

Feels like ext4 is the new black, as it were.

Thanks all for their input.
-- 
/All-around Sorin



------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes
not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as
part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers.
Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision.
Read this report now!  http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/