I've used rsync for remote file xfer of directory trees. It's been awhile, I'd forgotten about it. mw -- "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee." -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/27/2013 01:24 PM, Nux! wrote: > 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. >