On 27.05.2013 19:13, Mike Watson wrote: > I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I > provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS > 6.3 > with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One > filesystem is very large, >500GB, and contains numerous large files: > SQL, docs, church libraries in ebook and digital form, plus stored > videos of church services. > > My problem is that I've found no means of backing up that file system. > Dump and tar both error out as exceeding the maximum size. Neither > will > backup just the video directory (the largest) even with compression. > > Backup will be to an external (USB) removable HD. > > Can any suggest a prog or a method to back up this filesystem? Have you tried good old rsync? Or, if you want incremental backups, check rdiff-backup. I'm sure our list colleagues will come up with even more solutions. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro