Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Large files

[Ben]

I'm trying an rdiff now, I will let you know how it goes.

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:29, Ben Escoto wrote:
> >>>>> Ben <address@hidden>
> >>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:41:15 +1000
> > Hello, I'm having trouble backing up files > 2gb. I can back up the
> > large file for the first time, but any subsequent attempts result in an
> > error. This is the error I get:
> > 
> > python: ERROR: (rs_file_copy_cb) seek failed: Invalid argument
> > python: ERROR: (rs_job_complete) patch job failed: IO error
> > UpdateError bigfile librsync error 100 while in patch cycle
> 
> This looks like a librsync problem.  (When backing up initially,
> rdiff-backup doesn't use librsync, just when updating.)  Make sure you
> are running the latest version of librsync.  You can test it in
> isolation by running "rdiff" (an binary included in librsync) in a
> sig/diff/patch cycle.
> 
> Check also the librsync mailing lists; there has been much discussion
> there of largefile issues.