>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky [mailto:backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:33 PM
>To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
>Cc: sorin.srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to restore an 8GB archive file?
>
> > That limit is long gone:
> >
> > root@frances:/tmp# uname -a
> > Linux frances 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:21 UTC
> > 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
>
>I believe the OP was talking about 32bit Windows. Though even on WinXP
>or Win2000 I don't believe that is a limitation (unless you use FAT32
>rather than NTFS). Perhaps the OP was talking about FAT32...

No, it was actually linux. However it was my misunderstanding, as I thought it
was a 32b kernel-problem, when in fact it's a file system limitation according
to Google. The problem first came up on a 32b linux machine running ext3 file
system. Moving the 8GB archive to a machine with ext4, solved the problem. 

OTOH, ext3 is said to have a max file size limit from about 16GB up to some 2TB,
depending on block size. So why I would have a problem with an 8GB file is
anybody's guess.

-- 
/Sorin



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