frank cheong wrote:
Dear Ryan,
Actually not, and I have finally partially solved the problems by
splitting up the disklist to smaller sized folder instead of backing the
whole machine with only a "/". While I still got problem in backing up
one of the /var/log folder of one of the machine and the folder is just
34.2 MB. Though it is not important but I just wonder why.
Could that be because /var/log contains the file "lastlog", and your
OS happens to have one of those implementations that use a sparse file
for this and the largest uid on your system uses 64 bits?
Depending on the version of tar, you could get way too big estimates,
or very slow estimates for these cases. See also:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-07/msg00025.html
You could exclude the "./lastlog" file in that directory, as it is
not that important for a restore, and see if that helps.
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