#970 Issue closed: ISO size is larger than 4GiB-1

Labels: won't fix / can't fix / obsolete

yin747 opened issue at 2016-08-18 01:48:

  • rear version (/usr/sbin/rear -V):
    Relax-and-Recover 1.17.2 / Git
  • OS version (cat /etc/rear/os.conf or lsb_release -a):
    OS_VENDOR=RedHatEnterpriseServer
    OS_VERSION=7
  • rear configuration files (cat /etc/rear/site.conf or cat /etc/rear/local.conf): ### site.conf
OUTPUT=ISO
OUTPUT_URL=null
BACKUP=NETFS
BACKUP_URL=iso:///fsbackup/
NETFS_KEEP_OLD_BACKUP_COPY=
TMPDIR="/fsbackup"
export TMPDIR

local.conf

BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE=("${BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE[@]}"
 '/dev' '/media' '/mnt' '/proc' '/sys' '/tmp' '/run' '/var/tmp' '/var/crash' '/fsbackup' '/linuxbackup' )
EXCLUDE_RECREATE=( "${EXCLUDE_RECREATE[@]}"
 "fs:/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc" "fs:/sl_test" "fs:/seed_7" "fs:/fsbackup" )
  • Brief description of the issue
    I would like to make the ISO image for backup/restore in RHEL7, but the error message was returned.

log

2016-08-17 12:14:27 Copying kernel
'/boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64' -> '/fsbackup/rear.obKqUBhPNNJ6oJu/tmp/isofs/isolinux/kernel'
'/fsbackup/rear.obKqUBhPNNJ6oJu/tmp/initrd.cgz' -> '/fsbackup/rear.obKqUBhPNNJ6oJu/tmp/isofs/isolinux/initrd.cgz'
2016-08-17 12:14:27 Including output/ISO/Linux-i386/81_prepare_multiple_iso.sh
2016-08-17 12:14:27 Including output/ISO/Linux-i386/82_create_iso_image.sh
2016-08-17 12:14:27 Starting '/bin/mkisofs'
2016-08-17 12:14:27 Making ISO image
genisoimage 1.1.11 (Linux)
Scanning .
Scanning ./isolinux
Scanning ./fsbackup
File ./fsbackup/backup.tar.gz is larger than 4GiB-1.
-allow-limited-size was not specified. There is no way do represent this file size. Aborting.
2016-08-17 12:14:27 ERROR: Could not create ISO image (with /bin/mkisofs)
=== Stack trace ===
Trace 0: /usr/sbin/rear:251 main
Trace 1: /usr/share/rear/lib/mkbackup-workflow.sh:22 WORKFLOW_mkbackup
Trace 2: /usr/share/rear/lib/framework-functions.sh:70 SourceStage
Trace 3: /usr/share/rear/lib/framework-functions.sh:31 Source
Trace 4: /usr/share/rear/output/ISO/Linux-i386/82_create_iso_image.sh:17 source
Trace 5: /usr/share/rear/lib/_input-output-functions.sh:132 StopIfError
Message: Could not create ISO image (with /bin/mkisofs)
===================
2016-08-17 12:14:27 Running exit tasks.
rmdir: removing directory, '/fsbackup/rear.obKqUBhPNNJ6oJu/outputfs'
2016-08-17 12:14:27 Finished in 384 seconds
2016-08-17 12:14:27 Removing build area /fsbackup/rear.obKqUBhPNNJ6oJu
rmdir: removing directory, '/fsbackup/rear.obKqUBhPNNJ6oJu'
2016-08-17 12:14:28 End of program reached

gdha commented at 2016-08-18 07:15:

See also issue #581 for more info.

jsmeix commented at 2016-09-21 12:53:

Closing because of "won't fix".

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]