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From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:54:29 -0400
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Subject: Re: How big can a tar file get?
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On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote:

> 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
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_File_System
>
> Max file size 2^73 bytes
> (8 ZiB <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebibyte>)

That should just about do it...