• unable to backup large mail files

    By ed fraser 2 decades ago

    When trying to backup a mail file larger than 1.5GB it fails with error on the console unable to backup mail file.

    • Re: I know it's late

      By Tom Lyne 2 decades ago

      Does this still happen?



      I rarely have mail files over 1.5Gb; so I've nothing to test with.

      • large files

        By sean cull 2 decades ago

        Tom,



        I used to get ths although from memory the threshold seemed to vary between servers



        I haven't been using the system for about 12 months and when I have tried to re-configure it I am getting errors when I specify individual files ( directories are ok ) - I had this before but it seemed to go away then



        load knback

        05/03/2007 10:19:04 kNBack: version 1.02b

        05/03/2007 10:19:04 kNBack: Found 1 config documents.

        05/03/2007 10:19:04 kNBack: Initialisation complete.

        05/03/2007 10:19:04 kNBack: Starting backup of names.nsf…

        05/03/2007 10:19:05 kNBack: Could not create backup file c

        05/03/2007 10:19:05 kNBack: Backup successful for names.nsf

        05/03/2007 10:19:05 kNBack: Termination complete.



        Let me know if you need anything, you sent me a version with extra debugging a couple of years ago but I can't find it now



        Tks, Sean

        • Re:

          By Tom Lyne 2 decades ago

          Does the user the Domino server is running as have access the the directory it's trying to write to?



          That error would only be caused by a failure to create the destination file; the program also returns NOERROR which is why it thinks the backup is successful.



          There's some bad values being passed to the OSTranslate functions which turn Unicode text into ASCI text, so the errors are formatted wrong.



          I think I know what the problem is with large files too.



          -tom

          • Re:

            By Tom Lyne 2 decades ago

            The problem with the text was I used the wrong variable to print the filename out.



            I believe the large file problem has also been fixed now (I have tested it with a few files that were difficult to backup previously).



            See the new release.



            -tom