On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, David Miller wrote: >A year ago there was a problem with backing up files larger than either >2GB or 4GB, I forget which. A beta version of star would handle it, but >all the native versions of tar and gtar failed. > >That's often not a problem, but if you're backing up db container files on >big drives it's an issue.
That is definitely a caveat. I have yet to run into this filesize ceiling with gtar. We backup a cool terabyte currently and I've got a 4U box with 2TB on disk sitting on my desk next to me waiting to go into service. However, few of our datafiles here approach 2GB, we just have *lots* of files of a couple hundred megs a piece. Unfortunately who knows when gtar will have this bug fixed. Last I started checking around it looked suspiciously like GNU tar is presently maintainerless. The 1.13 release is several /years/ old and 1.13.25 has been sitting on ftp://alpha.gnu.org for forever as well. It's a damn shame there's no drop-in BSD licensed replacement (by drop-in I mean 100% compatible at the command line). Brandon D. Valentine -- http://www.geekpunk.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
