Config utility split archives greyed out

[James J]

Backing to a VFAT detachable file system. Need to set "Split backup archives into several chunks" option but that function is greyed out. Perhaps a manual workaround to set in a config file?

Mint Isadora 64 bit
Full backup = 80G
IOMEGA USB target
SBACKUP 0.11.4 from PPA

SBackup 'Default Profile' Logger
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2012-07-15 14:50:24,336 - INFO: Log output for [Default Profile] is directed to file '/var/log/sbackup/sbackup.2012-07-15_14.50.24.335284.log'.
2012-07-15 14:50:24,336 - WARNING: Obsolete option `stop_if_no_target` in configuration found. Ignored.
2012-07-15 14:50:24,336 - INFO: Profile settings are being read from file '/etc/sbackup.conf'.
2012-07-15 14:50:24,337 - INFO: Log output for [Default Profile] is directed to file '/var/log/sbackup/sbackup.2012-07-15_14.50.24.337586.log'.
2012-07-15 14:50:24,338 - WARNING: Obsolete option `stop_if_no_target` in configuration found. Ignored.
2012-07-15 14:50:24,338 - INFO: Profile settings are being read from file '/etc/sbackup.conf'.
2012-07-15 14:50:24,662 - INFO: No schedule defined in configuration file. Probing from filesystem.
2012-07-15 14:50:24,663 - INFO: No schedule defined in configuration file. Probing from filesystem.
2012-07-15 14:50:24,665 - INFO: No schedule defined in configuration file. Probing from filesystem.

[Jean-Peer Lorenz (peer.loz)]

Thank you for using sbackup and reporting this issue.

I guess your described behaviour is actually not a bug rather a limitation of the underlying TAR command: it is not possible to use compression and to split snapshots at the same time.

Can you please check whether it works as expected when setting compression to 'None'. (I've noted that it is often not necessary to compress snapshots at all since most modern file format as mp3, pdf, odt, jpeg etc. are already compressed)

Thank you in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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