Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:28:50 -0500 From: Adam Vandemore <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How big can a tar file get? Message-ID: <49DA9032.7040601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <30D89A0A-A607-4513-AEA2-DB16A1609BDD@identry.com> References: <30D89A0A-A607-4513-AEA2-DB16A1609BDD@identry.com>
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John Almberg wrote: > Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an emergency > backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /home directory. > > My question: how big can a file get on FreeBSD? This tar.gz file is > already 5G. Hard drive space is no problem, but as I'm watching this > file grow, I'm wondering if there is some file size limit that is > going to make this long backup abort. > > Naturally, that will happen when the backup is almost complete :-) > > -- John > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_File_System Max file size 2^73 bytes (8 ZiB <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebibyte>) -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610
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