> This may be a question more suited for backuppc-devel, but I thought
> I should try here first.
>
> Running BackupPC-3.2.0beta1 (difference from 3.2.0 is likely not
> relevant), backing up a Windows client using FTP.  There is an 11GB movie
> file on the Windows client, and when BackupPC is trying to copy it from
> the Windows machine, BackupPC_dump just keeps growing and eventually (I'm
> assuming) runs out of memory.
>
> I don't think Windows is relevant here, I think the problem is because
> it's a large file and backup is via FTP.

Find out!  See if you can ftp the file from a command line client.

> (I'm using FTP because my Windows rsync of choice - DeltaCopy - seemed
> to be confused by Windows 7's multitude of links/shortcuts, and we
> don't want to use a share on portable machines, out of a belief that
> we can control FTP better than we can control shares.)

An intriguing belief, as is the concept that rsync is confused by links. 
Mine isn't, but I don't use DeltaCopy.

> Thanks for any help you can provide!
>
> John
> jsellens AT syonex DOT com


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