From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ed Walsh" Subject: Re: Linux Backups Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:09:38 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <005a01c29010$062b6960$e1110a0a@ewalsh01> References: <3DDA7048.60D9D6CC@rosemail.rose.hp.com> <002c01c2900b$21e9ddd0$e1110a0a@ewalsh01> <3DD9414B0000536D@vader.se.ilan.cogent.net> (added by vader.se.ilan.cogent.net) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: matt.hemingway@pcnalert.com, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org using Samba 2.0.10 no NFS I should've compiled that in with the build. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Hemingway" To: "Ed Walsh" ; Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:57 PM Subject: Re: Linux Backups > How are you transfering the data to the other machine? > > If it's NFS, than you need to make sure the server supports NFS version 3 and > add NFS version 3 support to the client. > > I had this same problem with a Linux client we we're backing up to a Solaris > NFS server. Re-compiling the kernel with NFS version 3 client support fixed > the problem. > > -Matt > > On Tuesday 19 November 2002 12:34 pm, Ed Walsh wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm getting a little fustrated with linux backup. I have about 30GB of data > > residing on RedHat linux 7.1 that needs to be backed up. I've done backup > > with GNU tar with compression but it only backs up 2GB worth of data onto > > another machine. However, if I have 7GB of free space on the same machine, > > tar will go over the 2GB limit. So that part confuses me. > > > > I'm kinda hoping that someone knows a better way of backing up large data. > > I've somewhat been reading Amanda but I'm not sure if that's the way to go. > > I may be wrong since I'm new to linux backups. > > > > Any suggestions/recommendations or pointers to go to websites to research > > on would be greatly appreciated. Not having much luck on my own. > > > > Thanks, > > Ed > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- > ---------- > Matt Hemingway > matt.hemingway@pcnalert.com > http://www.pcnalert.com > 626-585-2788 x136 > ---------- > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html