[HECnet] LD images

[Sampsa Laine]

ZIP keeps crashing on files bigger than >50 GB on my system for some reason.

But I FTP'd an LD image to a Linux box and back again, and it mounted fine.

Sampsa


On 17 Sep 2015, at 15:15, Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:

> You may want to zip "-V" the LD-image
> 
>   Origineel bericht
> Van: Sampsa Laine
> Verzonden: donderdag 17 september 2015 15:44
> Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] LD images
> 
> 
> On 17 Sep 2015, at 14:37, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote:
> 
>> Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>> Guys,
>>> 
>>> Can I FTP an LD image from one system to another without the usual =
>>> problems of transferring BCK images?
>>> 
>>> The file is more or less just a stream of bytes, correct?
>>> 
>>> sampsa
>> 
>> Be sure to set mode to image or binary first.
> 
> Yes of course - but my question was more about comparing and LD image to a BCK saveset - BCK saveset don't really like being move by FTP (and for some reason ZIP keeps crashing when I try to compress this particular saveset, maybe due to it's size, 80 GB)..
> 
> So I'm restoring the save set to an LD disk image instead and will move that across and as I thought its format is not going to get corrupted in transit (provided I use image mode).
> 
> Sampsa
> 
> 
> 
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