I'm aware of the filesize limit in MOS. I did have an interesting point I was hoping someone could explain:

I used Backman to backup to a file, the data exceeded 3gigs. Backman generated an error, but the file was still created and I could restore files from it. I'm assuming some of the data is corrupt in the backup, but it still created the file.

Any idea?

Matt

[ Edited by matt3 on 2005/3/25 10:57 ]

use md5sum tool (comes with mos sdk) to create a md5sum list before you backup. you can do in the "root" of the data you want to backup like that:

sh -c "find -type f -exec md5sum {} \;" >md5sum.txt

this creates a file called "md5sum.txt" which contains all checksums of the files (recursively).

Then you do your backup. After that you can check in the 'backup data root' with:

md5sum -c md5sum.txt

to see if files got corrupted or not.


But anyway: current filesize limit is 2GB. So if you want to be on save side don't come over this limit.


regards,
tokai

[ Edited by tokai on 2005/3/25 20:50 ]