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Re: [opensuse] Maximum tar file size
- From: Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:32:18 -0800
- Message-id: <200702100632.18810.kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 10 February 2007 05:42, Janus wrote:
> I need a simple system for regular backups. The easiest would be to make
> one big tar file out of my home directory and copy it to an external disk
> via scp.
>
> But is there a max size limit for tar files? Can I trust tar and make one
> big tar file, e.g. 25 GB of my entire home directory?
I cannot answer that question, but I've been VERY happy with DAR and KDar
doing my backups and splitting them into 2GB slices.
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kai
Free Compean and Ramos
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> I need a simple system for regular backups. The easiest would be to make
> one big tar file out of my home directory and copy it to an external disk
> via scp.
>
> But is there a max size limit for tar files? Can I trust tar and make one
> big tar file, e.g. 25 GB of my entire home directory?
I cannot answer that question, but I've been VERY happy with DAR and KDar
doing my backups and splitting them into 2GB slices.
--
kai
Free Compean and Ramos
http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46
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