Steve D wrote:
Regarding tar, afio, and Linux backups
Hello Kestutis, all--
(I am a Linux newbie and I hope that more experienced users on the SuSE Linux list will correct any misconceptions or mistakes I may make below.)
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I have also just begun to learn about and use tar and afio, and one of the first things I learned is that if one stores an archive as a file in a linux filesystem (ext2, ext3 or reiserfs, for example) those filesystems have a limit as to how large a file can be. On my system, tar and afio failed at the point that the archive exceeded 2 Gigabytes, because 2 GB is the largest file size that was allowed (by the kernel or the filesystem or both, I presume).
You must be using an old kernel and an old tar linked against an old glibc. The 2gb barier was broken many months ago. Mark