[Gllug] Large files

[Simon Stewart]

So, here I sit with a handy server designed for backups. Last night, I
ran the backups across the network for every type of server that we
have (to check that the thing worked as expected) And this is where
the trouble begins.

You see, the backups (which are simply compressed dumps of the
filesystems) are impossible to play with:

lewd:/backups1# ls -l *.bz2
ls: rude-2001-09-20-usr.bz2: Value too large for defined data type
ls: rude-2001-09-20-usrlocal.bz2: Value too large for defined data type
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     34331715 Sep 20 21:10 lateral-2001-09-20-.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     11432062 Sep 20 21:05 rude-2001-09-20-.bz2

I can't even bzcat them to make sure that they can be restored
fine. Anyone got any bright ideas about how to side-step this issue?
Another fs? Can't split the files, either:

lewd:/backups1# split -b 650m rude-2001-09-20-usrlocal.bz2
split: rude-2001-09-20-usrlocal.bz2: Value too large for defined data type

so that's out of the question.... Help and jeers appreciated.

Cheers,

Simon

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