From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 14:29:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997E637B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2274543E42 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:29:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g98LTK8l052933; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:29:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:29:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Chad Morland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange tar problem Message-ID: <20021008212920.GA1227@dan.emsphone.com> References: <03ac01c26f0c$7d8d7b30$5b02000a@downtown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03ac01c26f0c$7d8d7b30$5b02000a@downtown> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 08), Chad Morland said: > I am trying to backup some files to tape using "tar -cpf /dev/nsa0 > /backup". Once everything is done, I use "tar -tv" to show me the > details of the files on the tape. Here is what I get: > > drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Sep 29 11:27 2002 vnt/vnt21.nj2/ > -rw-r--r-- root/wheel -747272192 Sep 29 15:59 2002 vnt/vnt21.nj2/vnt20.nj2-08282002_Full.tar.gz > drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Sep 29 16:27 2002 vnt/vnt22.nj2/ > -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 692824064 Sep 29 21:23 2002 vnt/vnt22.nj2/vnt22.nj2-09252002_Full.tar.gz Older versions of GNU tar could not handle file sizes over 2 (or 4, I forget) gig. You didn't tell us what version of FreeBSD you are running, but I'll assume 4.*. The tar shipped with FreeBSD < 4.7 has this problem. Either wait a bit and upgrade to 4.7, or install ports/archivers/gtar and use that. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message