Eli Heady wrote: > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:40, joe henderson wrote: > >> All, >> >> Is there a way to turn on gzips "larger file size" bit in the install? >> >> I have a few backup files that are 4+ GB.. I do not want to >> split the tars in multiple files to achieve this... >> >> >> Advise.. >> >> Joe >> > > This is not an answer to your question, but have you considered using bzip2 > instead? It will create archives in excess of 4 Gb, and bzip2 (through > bzip2recover) will get you closer to recovering data from corrupted archives. > > -eli > > No I have not considered this...
Since all my backups are in shell scripts I can look into it... Thanks for the info about the "bzip2recover" option... Has anyone looked @ using pars for recovery since we are on the subject? TIA, Joe > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
