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From: "Milan P. Stanic" <mps@rns-nis.co.yu>
Subject: Re: Linux Backups
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:55:10 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:34:36PM -0500, Ed Walsh wrote:
> I'm getting a little fustrated with linux backup. I have about 30GB of data
> residing on RedHat linux 7.1 that needs to be backed up. I've done backup
> with GNU tar with compression but it only backs up 2GB worth of data onto
> another machine. However, if I have 7GB of free space on the same machine,
> tar will go over the 2GB limit. So that part confuses me.
 
Your tar (or filesystem) probably has a 2G limit in file size.

Milan