[Maybe OT] BackupPC Aborts Backup at 8GB on F23

[jd1008]

On 02/28/2016 05:44 PM, Tim Evans wrote:
> I have just upgraded, to F23, a CentOS 6.7 system that has been 
> reliably running BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) to back 
> up a Windows 7 system via SMB for several years.
>
> After the F23 upgrade, which also included an upgrade of BackupPC to 
> version 3.3.1, backups are now always aborting at about the 8GB mark, 
> with this in the error log:
>
> 2016-02-28 14:00:02 Started incr backup on pelican (pid=325, share=C$)
> 2016-02-28 14:18:37 Backup failed on pelican (tar:712  Total bytes 
> received: 8287158228)
>
> Actual byte count varies a bit from one failed backup to the next, but 
> stays at the 8GB mark.
>
> Not sure this if this is a BackupPC issue, or something else. Maybe 
> filesystem-related?
>
> More (possibly complicating) info;  The destination for the backups is 
> NFS mounted on the F23 server from a ReadyNAS fileserver; local 
> filesystems on the ReadyNAS are btrfs format.
>
> NFS mount shows:
>
> raptor:/data/win on /win type nfs 
> (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=192.168.252.6,mountvers=3,mountport=60363,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.252.6)
>
> Where to look?  Thanks.
See 
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/314405-Can-t-overcome-the-8gb-barrier-on-NTFS
https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/094f42d7/
https://www.ualberta.ca/dept/chemeng/AIX-43/share/man/info/C/a_doc_lib/aixbman/baseadmn/jfs_size_under.htm