[Nottingham] Re: Tar backups

[James Gibbon]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:51:16 +0100
Alex Herington <alex at fnet.nu> wrote:
> 
> Basically I'm trying to back up 6GB of data to an SMB mount (which is
> a  NAS drive). As far as I know, because SMB is a Windows beast I
> can't  simply copy all the files to the SMB mount because I'll lose
> the file  attributes like permissions and uid/gid, so I figured tar
> everything up  using the "p" switch.
> 
> Fine, but tar appears to fail if the resulting archive >2GB :/
> 
> Am I using tar wrong? Should I use an alternative archiving tool? Any
> ideas?

Tar will happily create > 2GB archives, it has done for me many times.
I think you may be running into a limitation of the Windows filesystem
underneath your SMB mount.

James

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