Fat filesystems have a 2 GB limit on file size, I believe. An LDP howto mentioned how to get around this, as I recall. Hope this helps, but if not, I've no idea what to say. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 12:24 AM Subject: Tar Backups and Size Limits > -----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----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
