Re: tar / backup solutions

[James <james@piku.org.uk>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:20:03AM -0700, Christopher Slater wrote:

| 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.

ext2 did have a 2GB limit. I think it's gone away now. I run ReiserFS
and I believe that can cope with big files.
 
| One other option would be to break your backup into 2G chunks.  Say,
| backup /home into /backup/fullbackup_home.tar.gz, etc...

This would be a safer idea anyway. Should your large multi-gig tarfile
get corrupt, you're stuffed. But if only your home.tar file got
corrupt, you've not lost your entire backup.

There's now the question of whether you should back up to your
harddrive... Expend some cash on a DAT drive, it's worth it. It's no
good having backups on disk if your harddrive dies.

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