Hi, I'm running a remote zope server. In time the Data.fs kept growing and went above 2GB ... had to upgrade from kernel 2.2 and install python and zope from source ( still running RH7.3 an zope2.5.1 behind Apache ) ... so far so good ... for maintenance I thought I'd gzip the Data.fs.old and download it ... done that in an 8 hour dwn/l trough ssh ... so far so good tucked the Data.fs in zope/var directory on my local machine and fired up zope ------ 2004-05-12T12:53:02 INFO(0) Hotfixes Applying Hotfix_2002-04-15 ------ 2004-05-12T12:53:02 INFO(0) Hotfixes Applying Hotfix_2002-06-14 ------ 2004-05-12T12:53:02 INFO(0) NuxUserGroups.BasicUserWithGroups Patching BasicUser ------ 2004-05-12T12:53:02 INFO(0) NuxUserGroups.LocalRolesWithGroups Patching RoleManager ------ 2004-05-12T12:53:02 INFO(0) NuxUserGroups.CatalogToolWithGroups Patching CatalogTool ------ 2004-05-12T12:53:03 ERROR(200) TextIndexNG Import of Python extensions failed ------ 2004-05-12T12:53:03 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception Traceback (innermost last): File Fortis\z2.py, line 564, in ? File <string>, line 1, in ? File C:\Fortis\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 37, in ? File C:\Fortis\lib\python\ZODB\FileStorage.py, line 254, in __init__ (Object: G:\Fortis\var\Data.fs) File C:\Fortis\lib\python\ZODB\FileStorage.py, line 1975, in read_index IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument Did some googling and apparantly NTFS also has some file size limit (4GB) :-( I've a local linux box, but not enough HD space left to do the job. Out of experience I've noticed you need 2 times the amount of your Data.fs in free space to pack the database. So if you have a 4.7 GB filesize, you need about 9 GB of free space to pack. The HD itself is 10 GB, so I'm out of luck I guess. So I'm stuck running maintenance remotely. To not endanger the running zope instance I was wondering if I just could copy the entire folder, rename it to zopebis, change te start script to use alternate portnumber(s) and do my thing this way? I should probably shut down zope while copiing :-} Anything I overlooked? TIA, Roel -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM d- s+++:--- a C++++ UL++ P+ L++ E- W+++ N++ o K- w O? M+ V? PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 X++ R+ tv b++ DI++ D++ G e++ h---- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------