Justed checked the release notes for 4.5
Linux is not an OS listed for files >2GB
Unless its in a patch.
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From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of David A.
Chapa
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:42 AM
To: Adcock, Matt
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; Wightwick, Andy
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Linux Clients
Thanks Matt:
They are actually concerned with files, such as DB dumps, exceeding the 2GB
size. From what I understand NetBackup Linux Client has a 2GB file size
limitation. I'm still getting all of the information from them...so I hope
I'm
getting enough of the story to fully understand their goals.
Regards,
David
Quoting "Adcock, Matt" <Matt.Adcock AT gsccca DOT org>:
> First, let me qualify this answer by saying that I am not a *nix admin,
and
> I haven't run *nix in many years.
>
> To my knowledge, this is a limit of some (many?) versions of *nix on
32-bit
> platforms. A signed 32-bit value is used for off_t on some of these OSes,
> hence you can only express an offset of about 2GB. The response to this
> problem is large file support (LFS).
>
> If you're wondering about backup files being larger than 2GB, change your
> maximum fragment size in the storage unit definition. This setting was
> added primarily for backups to disk storage units on Unix filesystems. I
> realize you're a frequent contributor to this list and probably already
> know
> that part. Just throwing it in in case some others don't know. :-)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:17 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux Clients
>
>
> One of my clients is getting ready to install a linux client solution and
> have
> just been informed that there is a 2GB file size limit with the NBU Linux
> Client Software.
>
> Have any of you run into this, and if so, have you figured out a
> work-around?
>
> Is it based on a particular filesystem that you use with Linux?
>
> They will be using XFS and EXT3.
>
> Thanks
> David
>
>
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