Re: help me with tar
High,
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Angel MAN wrote:
> It's a long time since i wrote here but i've got a problem
> with tar
> i want to save some data from a server.
> So i use tar to compress my files before putting them on a
> storage band.
> But when my tar file override 2 GO, the programm exit and i
> can't save all my data.
> The server can coutain up to 80 Go of data so what can i do
> ??
Is this not the filesizelimit of ext2fs? Upgrade to 2.4 (>2.4.12),
I have been told.
But, if you do this on the server side on which you have not root access
to, try to split the data in several pieces (tar is a tape archiver, it
should be able to split the data, I guess).
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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