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Re: [opensuse] Maximum tar file size
- From: Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:06:19 -0800
- Message-id: <200702101606.19638.kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 10 February 2007 13:42, Janus wrote:
> On Saturday 10 February 2007 15:32, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > I cannot answer that question, but I've been VERY happy with DAR and KDar
> > doing my backups and splitting them into 2GB slices.
>
> KDar never worked for me on SUSE10.0, but I will give a a new try once I
> get 10.2 installed on my workstation. Handy for backup to DVDs.
>
> Can I ask you why you choose 2 GB slices? Is 2 still a magic number on
> Linux?
Um, for some reason, K3B can't make a DVD out of one 4.7GB file. I don't quite
understand why - something to do with math, and I suck at math.
In any case, I can put two 2 GB files on a DVD without a problem.
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> On Saturday 10 February 2007 15:32, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > I cannot answer that question, but I've been VERY happy with DAR and KDar
> > doing my backups and splitting them into 2GB slices.
>
> KDar never worked for me on SUSE10.0, but I will give a a new try once I
> get 10.2 installed on my workstation. Handy for backup to DVDs.
>
> Can I ask you why you choose 2 GB slices? Is 2 still a magic number on
> Linux?
Um, for some reason, K3B can't make a DVD out of one 4.7GB file. I don't quite
understand why - something to do with math, and I suck at math.
In any case, I can put two 2 GB files on a DVD without a problem.
--
kai
Free Compean and Ramos
http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46
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