Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup result is missing text files but no errors, sourcedir to big >2TB

[Lew Wolfgang]

On 07/17/2019 04:48 AM, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am trying to run an rdiff-backup and it keeps missing some documents 
> compared with the source, we are using a simple test.txt file to check 
> if the backups are still working and I got one big source backup of 
> +2.4TB. When running rdiff-backup there are no errors. So I can not 
> figure out what is going wrong.
>
> I split the backup to make the source smaller and then it does make 
> backups of the test.txt file.
>
> How can rdiff-backup handle bigger 3TB backups? The command I am running?
>
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --tempdir 
> /srv/storage/backups/tempdir --exclude-device-files --exclude-sockets 
> --exclude-fifos /mnt/sr8-sdb2/ 
> /srv/storage/backups/libvirt-filesystems/sr8-sdb2/ 

Just a wild guess:  a size limitation in your disk partition, filesystem, or
operating system?

What operating system:
32 or 64-bits:
Partition table:  (MBR or GPT)
Filesystem type:  (NTFS, EXT4, ZFS, XFS, etc)
Size of destination partition:
BIOS type:  (Legacy or UEFI)

Regards,
Lew