-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I'm trying to backup my linux system (home directories to a 200 GB external drive using tar. It seems that there is an upper size limit either due to the fat32 file system on this external drive or tar. I can't emagine tar having imposed any limits. So I tried to use -M multi-volume option and a -L limit of 4GB. It got through the first file seemingly ok and it put up the prompt to start the next file. Well, I figured tar would just go ahead and create the next file with a different suffix or something. Well, it appears that it did not. When I looked in another console I saw that the size of the second archive started over as I would expect but it is actually the original file. In other words, I think the back procedure is overlaying the first file. The tar command I used is: tar -cvf archive.tar -M -L 4000000 FILES... I figured later I would do incremental backups against this tar file. Am I missing something? If I reformatted my external drive as ext3 or something, I could probably have done all this without size limits but I also intend to use this same drive to backup my winblows boxes as well. This is a 200 GB drive with a pre configured VFAT single partition. Any ideas out there? Thanks. - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjdulWSjv55S0LfERAjvcAJ4nP7C/cVtMo6iLhoHqCg94skviVgCeMdQF 2kuZ0rrTJ+K7r4TbTsWkAh8= =nOgl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
