RE: max file sizes stopping tar backups?
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 06:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 12:13 +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:
> > > Am I right in deducing, therefore, that there is
> > > indeed a 2Gb limit?
> >
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > You need to split the file. Personally I just use backup2l
>
> No.
>
> 7,083,489,280 01-30 02:39 ./music-20050130.tar
>
> $ tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.14
>
> You need to upgrade your version of tar, possibly meaning an
> upgrade to Sarge.
>
I am using testing (see below) which I thought was as-good-as Sarge?
michael@ratty:~/models-3/Steve_Griffiths$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.93
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
michael@ratty:~/models-3/Steve_Griffiths$ uname -a
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 19:50:17 JST 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
michael@ratty:~/models-3/Steve_Griffiths$ less /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
michael@ratty:~/models-3/Steve_Griffiths$
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