big files and ssh

numerodix · l33t Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 743 Location: nl.eu

I've gotten in the habit of making periodical backups of my boxen so that I won't be sorry when the inevitable happens. I transfer these tar archives to my desktop computer with konqueror and fish, and burn them on dvd. Recently one of the archives to be transferred was 3.2GB, I fired up konqueror and using the fish protocol I navigated to where it's located on the filesystem. The filesize is displayed as "0 GB" and when trying to transfer the file I get a read error. I tried to reproduce this by looking at the desktop box from another one and a 2.6GB tar archive was also displayed as "0 GB".

Strange, could it be just konq/fish/ssh? I can use these archives fine on the box they were created. But I burnt one on a dvd and tried copying it over to the desktop that has all the other backups. The file copied was only 6MB in size...

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Nate_S · Guru Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 414

Are you burning the DVDs in iso9660? AFAIK, iso9660 can only do files up to 2GB, you can either split the file into chunks, or use udf.

PowerFactor · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 9:31 am Post subject:

Looks like it's a konqueror/fish thing. I have some ~4GB files on my server that show up as 0B when using konq/fish. When using konq/sftp two of them show up as a few hundred megs while the other one shows up as 16,777,216TB.

Using the command line sftp client the corect size is displayed, and I put them there though an ssh tunnel in the first place, so it's not a limitation in the ssh/sftp protocol.
Konq/sftp seems to copy them over just fine though, just the amount remaining is all wrong. If I try with fish it says it can't read the file.

numerodix · l33t Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 743 Location: nl.eu

Okay, sftp it is, I'll remember that.

And thanks to you, Nate! I think it was iso9660 indeed. How is udf supported in Windows btw?
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Nate_S · Guru Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 414

I think it's supported fine in windows. AFAIK, most dvd movies are udf.

numerodix · l33t Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 743 Location: nl.eu

PowerFactor, you were right, sftp works fine only the indicator goes haywire and the file is displayed as several TB's. Not to worry though.
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