Re: tar / backup solutions

[Christopher Slater <olyar@yahoo.com>]

I thought that gtar allowed bigger than 2G tarballs.  It could be a
filesystem problem.  I think the default in some Unixes is for
"nolargefiles".  That is, no files larger than 2G.  You might check
that you're not running into that.

One other option would be to break your backup into 2G chunks.  Say,
backup /home into /backup/fullbackup_home.tar.gz, etc...

HTH,

Chris

--- "Walsh, Ed" <ewalsh@wrenchead.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there someway to backup an entire linux system? I'm using the
> following
> tar command:
> 
> tar -zcvpf /backup/fullbackup.tar.gz  --directory / --exclude=backup
> --exclude=mnt --exclude=proc  --exclude=var/spool/squid .
> 
> However after awhile it stops processing the backups at 2GBs. I'm
> guessing
> there is a size limitation to using tar.gz.  Is there some other way
> to
> backup a 15GB partition? I don't have the luxury of a tape backup
> drive for
> linux but I do have one for Win2K, no luck with Samba.  Currently
> trying to
> backup a RedHat v7.1 system.  Any insight would be much appreicated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed Walsh
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Wrenchead, Inc.
> e: ewalsh@wrenchead.com
> o: 914-697-9325   c: 914-843-7196
> 
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