I am trying to back up
files on my linux box to an ftp server (while keeping permissions). I don’t
have enough space on my linux box to first tar the files, and then send them. I
am using the following commands after I boot with the knoppix distribution:
sudo ftp 192.168.1.101 21
binary
put |"sudo tar -cvlO *" stuff.tar
For some reason, it always stops transferring just before 2Gb (1,972,460KB on
last attempt), and the file should be 20Gb or so. Is there a file size
limit with tar? Does it need enough memory for the whole file even if I output
to the standard output instead of the file system or something? I couldn’t
find any limits.
Thanks,
John
Stone
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