> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-
> support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Adam
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:39 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Re: How to copy / download large backup
> "something.fbk" from linux server to windows machine
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Adam" <s3057043@y...> wrote:
> > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Mohd. Jeffry"
> > <linuxlah@g...> wrote:
> > > On 6/21/05, Nigel Weeks <nweeks@e...> wrote:
> > > > Hmm. How big does the file get before it stops? 2GB-ish?
> > >
> > > Can't tell.. the ftp cli stops with only those error
> > >
> > > On 6/21/05, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:
> > > > If you don't have any NTFS 5 partitions available, you can take
> a
> > fresh
> > > > backup on your Linux (presumably ext3) system, backing up to
> > multiple
> > > > files. Similarly, when you restore on the FAT partition, you
> can
> > restore
> > > > the database as multiple files of suitable sizes. Once your
> > backups and
> > > > database files are split into multiple files, make sure you
> keep
> > them
> > > > together when you move backups and databases around.
> > >
> > > Helen,
> > > So I need to restore the fbk and back it up again into smaller
> > files ?
> > > Can I just split the fbk using split command and just restore
> back
> > at
> > > the windows machine? Will the db work?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > linuxlah
> >

Hi

We've had the same problem - i think it is samba related.

So we created bat procedure on windows side, and ran it there

Regards
Bogdan