It was true of 32 bit.   The limit was actually less than 2 GB.   Even
without that if the application itself isn't compiled with "largefiles"
support it would hit this limit.   Since most Linux is still 32 bit the
NBU for it may not have this support.

 

Of course the real issue here is that you're not truncating your logs on
a regular basis.  2 GB of log information is quite a bit.  You should
set up a log rotation to save off the original log then start a new log.
Linux has logrotate built for just this purpose.

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hindle,
Greg
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:24 AM
To: NB List Mail
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Unix/Linux file sizes question

 

Can anyone tell me the maximum file size in red hat Linux 2.4 and
Solaris 9?  We had a problem on one of our Linux boxes that support told
us that log files cannot be large than 2.4 gig in size or the backup
will stop. We were getting 96 errors. Once we deleted the log file that
backup ran. So my question is can any confirm this in red hat Linux and
Solaris UNIX? I asked out UNIX experts here they said yes, there is a
default setting when first installed that limits file sizes and if you
need larger sizes then you have to turn this on. I am curious if this is
true and if anyone else has run into this weird issue.

 

Greg 

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