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Re: Very big files with tar



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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are about 9GB 
> data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to big output file (i 
> think max size is around 2GB). Is there a way to split the output in more 
> files?

Have you looked into the -z or -j options?

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