Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:29:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Chad Morland <chad.morland@inquent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange tar problem Message-ID: <20021008212920.GA1227@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <03ac01c26f0c$7d8d7b30$5b02000a@downtown> References: <03ac01c26f0c$7d8d7b30$5b02000a@downtown>
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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
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