Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.10.4 -- CANNOT MAKE VALID BACKUP FILE

[Robert Seward <rseward bluestone-consulting com>]

On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 03:01 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Am Montag, den 08.09.2014, 22:06 +0200 schrieb Ángel González:
> > Bart wrote:
> > > Sounds like you are hitting the file size limit for the file system you
> > > have on your backup device.  Perhaps if you format your backup device to
> > > ext4 or the like.
> > >
> > > Bart

> Use the unix command "split" to split the big archive into files of a
> lower size and put them together via "cat" when restoring. The nautilus
> file manager has a script package where you can select a file and do
> this via context menu.

The split method is a little work, but at least you don't have to
reformat the Fat32 file system if you don't want to.

man split

cd /tmp # or what ever file location you save the backup to, 
        # Remember you can't write directly to the fat32 location.

split --bytes=1G evo-backup-file evo-backup-file-
ls -l evo-backup-file-* # to see the newly created 1GB files

# Copy the evo-backup-file- files created by the command 
# above to your external disk. Then copy the files to the new computer.

cat evo-backup-file-* > evo-backup-file-restored

Now use Evolution to restore from the re-assembled
evo-backup-file-restored.

Thanks,
Rob




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