Hello,
I've been running Redhat 8.0 on an HP box with standard services like web and ssh, for more then a year. I would like to back up the machine (4gigs < data <10gigs) in any practical way. I have an external USB 120 gig hard drive mounted with a 20 gig linux partition formatted (mke2fs -T largefile4 /dev/sda3). After creating a custom file list to back up, I use the command:
# cat file.list | cpio -o --format=crc > full-backup.cpio
All seems well:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6170300928 Oct 19 13:06 full-backup.cpio
To test my backup, I'm trying to create a file list to diff with the input list, and maybe pull out a sample file to check. When I do the following, I get and error:
# cpio -i --list --format=crc < full-backup.cpio > output.list
cpio: standard input is closed: Value too large for defined data type
and the output.list file is empty.
Any thoughts on how to fix? Any thoughts on a better backup solution? Having auto-backups would be great too
Bob