roland wrote: > Good evening, > I have a vmware installation with the virtual clients, Centos 5, fedora6 > and Winserver. > I try to do a backup with > cd cd /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines/Other\ Linux\ 2.6.x\ Centos/ > with > -rw------- 1 root root 1061158912 Oct 5 17:51 > 564d73c6-014e-35e0-3ae5-f6f089429332.vmem > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 Oct 5 17:51 > 564d73c6-014e-35e0-3ae5-f6f089429332.vmem.WRITELOCK > -rw------- 1 root root 8664 Oct 5 17:51 nvram > -rw------- 1 root root 32212254720 Nov 16 19:38 Other Linux 2.6.x > kernel-flat.vmdk > -rw------- 1 root root 365 Oct 5 18:01 Other Linux 2.6.x > kernel.vmdk > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 Oct 5 17:51 Other Linux 2.6.x > kernel.vmdk.WRITELOCK > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 7 11:08 Other Linux 2.6.x > kernel.vmsd > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 938 Oct 5 17:51 Other Linux 2.6.x > kernel.vmx > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26870 Oct 5 14:53 vmware-0.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103160 Oct 5 12:14 vmware-1.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59830 Sep 27 04:46 vmware-2.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 514567 Nov 16 16:49 vmware.log > taking the backup with > find . -print|cpio -ovBc >/dev/st0 > gives the error > field not sufficient for storing file size > So I assume the filesize 32 Gb of the virtual client is to much. > > How can I do the backup??? > > I'm going to guess that cpio is your problem. You might want to add a "-H newc" to your cpio command line. Otherwise use tar as I believe it will handle files over 2GB. Alternatively, you can tell vmware to split its disks into two gig chunks. Thats a image creation option though, so it may not help you here.
