Re: [cobalt-users] Active Monitor state changes

["Richard Donahue" <ebs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Steve Root" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Active Monitor state changes


> At 12:53 14/01/03 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Richard Donahue wrote:
> > >
> > > Will using rsync be able to work over 2 GB's?
> >
> >You may have trouble with rsync if you have '1' file > 2GB, but that
would
> >be unusual. rsync manages your files one-at-a-time, and then only sends
> >the differences.
>
> Purely out of interest (cause I'm a newbie learning lots:) - doesn't the
> Qube3 backup generate a set of .tar files (uncompressed),  1) why wasn't
it
> set up to compress the backups originally?
> 2) isn't there an option when creating .tar files to limit them to a
> certain size and create a set of numbered files (eg backup001.tar,
> backup002.tar....) - so knowing of the 2GB limit, why wasn't the qube set
> up to create multiple files?
>
> Thanks for the education:)
> Steve


That's a good question because that's what I understood at first.

Rich
EBS


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