Re: Very big files with tar
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:50:52 +0200
Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch> 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?
Odd. I know I've created larger files with tar - I backed up about 5GB
compressed last week. That was on OpenBSD, but usually the GNU tools
are more powerful than the BSD ones. Are you sure you've got disk space
for the operation? Also, does the filesystem you're putting the tarball
on support large files? FAT32, for example, only supports a max file
size of 2GB.
--Todd
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