Re: [rdiff-backup-users] what can be the problem

[David Kempe]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> we got the following error since a few days. the problem can be a file 
> in that directory which was larger than 4GB. first of all is there any 
> workaround to be able to handle large files?
> and what can we do now? since now the whole backup stops. is it possible 
> to delete something in the backup dir or even that directory without 
> loose the integrity of the whole backup?
> thank you for your help in advance.
> yours.

get a new python (2.3) with the newer gzip module.
python 2.2 gzip can't handle large files and rdiff-backup zips up the 
increments

dave