The programs you are using probably just don't know what to do with such a large archive. I have noticed a similar error with Windows. Windows supposedly has a built-in utility to unzip Winzip archives, but it doesn't work with big ones.
Try moving the file to a Windows machine and using WinZip. Just yesterday using Winzip, I opened an archive with 13,428 files and more than 13 gigabytes of data. Go to <www.winzip.com>. It's shareware. Whatever you use, use the latest version. A lot of these programs were initially designed so people could put a bunch of files onto one floppy disk. We're way beyond that now. Chris Baker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] systems administrator Intera Inc. -- 512-425-2006 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eduardo Trápani Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_zipCreate created huge zip that cannot beread Hello, I created a zip file from a backup, right before it was overwritten by a much smaller full backup. The zip file is about 6G and I have not found a zip program that will open it (I tried, jar, 7zip, unzip ...). I get errors, as if it were corrupted, but then, with some tools, I get to see some of the entries. I'm running under Linux. I guess the huge size has something to do with it, but I'm stuck and I cannot recover the files, that I do not longer have. Any ideas on how to move on? Thanks, Eduardo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
