>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dale King [mailto:dale AT daleking DOT org]
>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:17 AM
>To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to restore an 8GB archive file?
>
>> 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.
>
>I don't think you had a problem with the filesystem.  More likely it was a
>ulimit issue of the user account you were using to restore the file.
>Check the output of 'ulimit -a' within the user account to see if that was
>the case.

I checked that. It said "unlimited".

We generally don't limit things like that here (unless that is a default setting
in CentOS?), as files and folders on the machines in question can grow to
gigabytes, depending on how complicated a particular molecular modeling session
is.

-- 
/Sorin



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