Re: [rdiff-backup-users] IOError: [Errno 75] Value too large for defined data type

[Dominic Raferd]

BTW, I see open source utility Ext2Read 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ allows a Windows machine to 
read and copy from Ext2/3/4 (including using LVM2) filesystems.

Dominic

On 10/05/11 20:45, D. Kriesel wrote:
> > My
> > impression is that a high proportion of problems with rdiff-backup
> > relate to backups to NTFS volumes (backup *from* NTFS generally works
> > fine).
>
> Second that. If there is no unix file system available, fat32 is also an option.
>
> David
>
> > On 10/05/11 16:21, Bruno Basilio wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm new at using rdiff-backup but already fascinated with the simple
> > principle.
> > > Hope it will not stop to be maintained.
> > >
> > > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, installed the rdiff-backup 1.2.8 and tried
> > > to backup 80GB of pictures and movies using to USB external drives
> > > with NTFS, at around 30GB, it stopped with following error:
> > >
> > > <<<
> > > $  rdiff-backup -v9 --print-statistics --no-hard-links
> > > /media/BBasilioHomeBackup/fotos/ /media/Elements/rdiff-backup/fotos/
> > > Mon May  9 22:23:34 2011  Using rdiff-backup version 1.2.8
> > > Mon May  9 22:23:34 2011  Found interrupted initial backup.