Re: backup home to a second hard drive? File size limits
Hi,
AFAIK kernel 2.4 exceeds the limit of 2GB files. Try that.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
On 13 Apr 2001, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> I've been using a script to tar and gzip nightly backups of user
> directories in /home to a second hard drive. The other day one
> of the users (actually it was me :) hit the size limit so that
> the resulting tar'ed gzip'ed file exceeds the 2^31-1 byte file
> size limit.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to anticipate that and split the archive
> to avoid the file size limit.
>
> Mike
>
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