Re: max file sizes stopping tar backups?
On Thursday 03 February 2005 07:40, michael wrote:
>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
This version is known to be broken for use with amanda, as is the 1.14
family. 1.13-19, 1.13-25, and 1.15-1 work.
>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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