rsync failure?

Jerry LeVan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Is there some kind of limit on the file size that rsync can handle?

The failed file is 2.19 GB...

cat backupVM.sh
#!/bin/sh
rsync -azvE --delete "/Users/jerry/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized" /Volumes/Storage

[mbp:~]$ backupVM.sh
building file list ... done
Virtual Machines.localized/
Virtual Machines.localized/._.DS_Store
Virtual Machines.localized/ChromeOS.vmwarevm/
Virtual Machines.localized/._ChromeOS.vmwarevm
Virtual Machines.localized/Fedora 12.vmwarevm/
Virtual Machines.localized/._Fedora 12.vmwarevm
Virtual Machines.localized/._WinXP.vmwarevm
Virtual Machines.localized/._Windows 7.vmwarevm
Virtual Machines.localized/.localized/
Virtual Machines.localized/ChromeOS.vmwarevm/._ChromeOS.nvram
Virtual Machines.localized/ChromeOS.vmwarevm/._ChromeOS.vmem
Virtual Machines.localized/ChromeOS.vmwarevm/._ChromeOS.vmsd
Virtual Machines.localized/ChromeOS.vmwarevm/._ChromeOS.vmss
Virtual Machines.localized/ChromeOS.vmwarevm/._ChromeOS.vmx
Virtual Machines.localized/ChromeOS.vmwarevm/._ChromeOS.vmxf
Virtual Machines.localized/Fedora 12.vmwarevm/._Fedora 11-000001-s001.vmdk
Virtual Machines.localized/Fedora 12.vmwarevm/Fedora 11-000001-s002.vmdk
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 16385 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
rsync: write failed on "/Volumes/Storage/Virtual Machines.localized/Fedora 12.vmwarevm/Fedora 11-000001-s002.vmdk": Result too large (34)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/receiver.c(268) [receiver=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (354 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/io.c(452) [sender=2.6.9]
[mbp:~]$ 


Jerry
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