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  1. Bug #385495
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 385495

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Martin R. Siegert (martin-siegert) wrote : Re: [Bug 385495] Re: Large backup signature and manifest files should be split with --volsize too

Hello Richard,

> [...] My sigtar file is reaching 1.8G and 1.9G on an NTFS USB
> drive. Presumably when it hits 2G it throws an error [...]

> Using backup with a preformatted (and therefor NTFS) external
> USB drive is a fairly common use case, and 2GB files should be
> avoided[...]

Are you sure your drive is NTFS formatted - NTFS usually has not 2GB file size limit, but FAT has such.

Also, usually preformatted drives (except for MacOS) usually have FAT formatting, for easy shareing with Linux _and_ Windows, while (older) Linux-distributions cannot write to NTFS out-of-the-box.

Best, Martin