file size limit exceeded, to backup NTFS. Alternative to limitations use of dd ??
Hi,
I am just trying a simple thing: to backup a NTFS partition of XP with 10-20GB size. Code:
File size limit exceeded Partimage is not workign for ntfs (just experimental), hence of no use for my case. Thanks if somebody knows ... Regards == btw Quote:
Partimage: http://www.partimage.org/Supported-Filesystems |
This has nothing to do with dd, unless you are running a very (very) old version of dd. It sounds like you are trying to back up to a FAT formatted drive. FAT has a 4GB file size limit.
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Ghost for Linux???: http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/
This does overcome the 'file size limit exceeded' issue. |
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Re: file size limit exceeded, to backup NTFS. Alternative to limitations use of dd ??
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Even though it is "brain-damaged", I generally use FAT32 to store my partitions because it does not have the journaling overhead of NTFS or EXT3 (so it is much faster for writing files), and you can mount it from both Windows and Linux. |
I found the problem.
NTFS 10GB hdd to backup: "File limit exceeded" ntfsclone hangs on 2048MB dd hangs on 2048MB since certainly gz is limited to 2048MB The solution that works is : dd with split and with gzip I will write down the command afterwards. (to be cont) |
hence sthg like worked:
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dd if=/dev/hda1 conv=sync,noerror | gzip -9 | split -b 1500m - backup-image.img.gz |
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