On 2014-09-18 19:53, Lord Sporkton wrote:
> Regarding the limitations page at
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html [1]
> It indicates that smbclient is limited to 4gig, what happens over
> that?
> I noticed a few servers with much larger files and Im curious about
> what exactly happens because they dont seem to be throwing any errors.
> However that limit also happens to be due to smbclient, not backuppc
> so if they fixed that in smbclient it should be resolved overall
> right?
> 
> THanks
> Lawrence

In my limited testing (some time ago) it was the case that the file 
simply "looped" -- so for a 6 gig file, all 6 gigs would be transferred 
into the same 4 gig file, but the last 2 gigs would overwrite the first 
two gigs, making the file largely useless.  No error or warning is 
given.

Between 2 and 4 gigs, the file size will either be artibrary, or 
correct.

I did not test with a libsmbclient that can handle larger files, so I 
can't answer your other question, but I suspect the answer is more 
complicated than simply adjusting libsmbclient.

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