Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:35:26 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net> To: David Miller <dmiller@sparks.net> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, "Mark W. Krentel" <krentel@dreamscape.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump on mounted fs Message-ID: <20020719121946.F19776-100000@dallben> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207191304320.87553-100000@search.sparks.net>
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, David Miller wrote: >A year ago there was a problem with backing up files larger than either >2GB or 4GB, I forget which. A beta version of star would handle it, but >all the native versions of tar and gtar failed. > >That's often not a problem, but if you're backing up db container files on >big drives it's an issue. That is definitely a caveat. I have yet to run into this filesize ceiling with gtar. We backup a cool terabyte currently and I've got a 4U box with 2TB on disk sitting on my desk next to me waiting to go into service. However, few of our datafiles here approach 2GB, we just have *lots* of files of a couple hundred megs a piece. Unfortunately who knows when gtar will have this bug fixed. Last I started checking around it looked suspiciously like GNU tar is presently maintainerless. The 1.13 release is several /years/ old and 1.13.25 has been sitting on ftp://alpha.gnu.org for forever as well. It's a damn shame there's no drop-in BSD licensed replacement (by drop-in I mean 100% compatible at the command line). Brandon D. Valentine -- http://www.geekpunk.net bandix@geekpunk.net ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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