On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:15:17PM +0530, Nabin Limbu wrote:
> I want to clone my hard disk with dd tool. One of my partition has about 6 GB of
> contents. so whenI try to backup my partition with the command:
> dd if=/dev/sda1 bs-512 | gzip -9/mnt/sda3.dd.gz,
> then I got error saying file size limit exceeded after backing up 2GB. It seems file size
> has limited only up to 2GB size. Now how can I backup my 6GB content with dd tool.
Older versions of Linux didn't support files > 2GB - newer ones do. For
older versions, pipe your gzip command into split. Here's a fragment of
our really old backup script:
find $fs -name .nobackup -xdev | sed -e 's|/.nobackup||' > $EXCLUDE
( tar czl --ignore-failed-read --exclude-from=${EXCLUDE} -f -$fs \
|| touch $OOPS) | split -b 1000m - ${target}-
You may also want to look at mondorescue.org for full image-based
backups.
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