From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 25 22:35:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4B337B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:35:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF2543E42 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@geekpunk.net) Received: from pcp532210pcs.nash01.tn.comcast.net (pcp532210pcs.nash01.tn.comcast.net [68.52.140.231]) by mtaout03.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GZU000OECUMSS@mtaout03.icomcast.net> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 01:35:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:35:26 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" Subject: Re: dump on mounted fs In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: bandix@dallben To: David Miller Cc: David Malone , "Mark W. Krentel" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <20020719121946.F19776-100000@dallben> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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