Probkup files exceeds 2 gig

[Keith Owens]

Hello folks,

We recently upgraded from HPUX 10.20 to HPUX 11 (32 bit).

Progress version is 8.3E (we also used 8.3 on the 10.20 platform).

We used to be able to do a backup to disk and when the 2 gig limit was reached we were prompted for the next device name.

Now when the 2 gig limit is reached the backup fails with error 3697 - file size limit exceeded.

We've tried having a text file with paths & filenames piped into the probkup command but that also crashes.

What have we overlooked?

Any ideas will be much appreciated.

Thanx in advance

Keith
DBA under stress

 

[toby.Harman]

Ensure that you have the -vs specified in your probkup command to be just smaller that 2GB. This should force it to switch to a new file before you reach the 2GB limit.

It looks like the O/S now supports large files (> 2GB) where it may not have before, and when the backup is being written the O/S isn't forcing the file size.

 

[Corwin]

Hey Keith,

Do as Toby said! Here is a quick script example for 1 GB backup extents (using 8k block sizes). Once it actually fills what it needs the rest of the entries just get disarded.

probkup $db $backupdir/$db.bkup01 -vs 125000 <<END
$backupdir/$db.bkup02
$backupdir/$db.bkup03
$backupdir/$db.bkup04
$backupdir/$db.bkup05
$backupdir/$db.bkup06
$backupdir/$db.bkup07
$backupdir/$db.bkup08
$backupdir/$db.bkup09
$backupdir/$db.bkup10
END

echo Done!!!

 

[Keith Owens]

Many thanx guys, problem solved