B. Rupp wrote:
> When I had the e-smith server freshly installed it calculated
> the size of the backup (~65000 bytes by then) and I could
> download and save the file on my desktop machine. This leads to
> my speculation that the server cannot handle that much data.
There is no arbitrary limitation. The system does need to effectively backup the data twice, once into a black hole in order to calculate the size, then the second to produce the output file.
> I'd really like to use the included backup/restore function as
> it's so easy. Is there such a limitation? What are possible
> workarounds?
The limitation on backup is effectively the reliability of your network, and the amount of free space on the workstation that you backup to. But it sounds like your problem is the time that it takes to estimate the size, not the backup itself.
The first thing I would try to investigate is to log in as root, and do:
du -s /home/e-smith
See how long it takes, and what the resultant size is.
Charlie