backup larges files (more than 12Go) to a remote host (disk)?

[kat115]

Hi
I have several large files to backup to a filesystem on a remote host (i don't have a tape on local host)
backup doesn't work since it wants a tape or floppy. How can I do?
My files are larger than 10Go (tar doesn't support that I guess)
Thanx for your help
kat

 

[bi]

You could NFS mount the filesystem the files you want to back up to the remote host and do a simple cp -p command. You might want to compress or gzip the files before you do the copy, however, because a 10 or 12 GB file is going to take a while to go through a network unless your network is very fast.

 

[Chapter11]

Have you considered rsync?

 

[kat115]

Hi
I thought about the NFS idea.
I don't know rsync but i'll take a look at it.
someone told me about gtar (gnu tar i guess) maybe it does support larger files than tar (8GB max).
I have a gigabit ethernet network between the servers.
thanx!

 

[Chapter11]

If you need to use tar or gzip, you may also need to copy the file through a named pipe to get around the 2G file limits...

or in that case, maybe even netpipes.

 

[kat115]

Hi
Chapter11 sorry I don't understand what you mean?Could you please give an example?
thanx
kat