On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 at 12:53am, CentOS-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote > I have just completed installing CentOS 4.2 (I came over here from Fedora-Land > (core-3)). I did this via a fresh install. I tar'd everything to an external > drive reinstalled the new stuff and everything is working very well. > > I've just got one issue. I have a full system backup Backup.tar that has a > size of 78,717,880,320. When I issue the command tar -xvf Backup.tar I get > only about 111MB of data restored. Basically /root and a couple other odd > things of little consequence. And then what happens? Does it give you an error message? Does it just stop restoring? Does it slow way down? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University