On Monday 12 September 2005 22:40, Stuart Howard wrote: > To recap the commands I am calling are > tar -czf /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz /usr > cp /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz /mnt/NEWSTU/genstubackup/fullsysbackup
Is NEWSTU a samba mount from the XP box? > The source is Gentoo box 2.6.11.5 on a reiserfs partition, the file is > created but will not exceed 2Gb or 2,147,483,647. Once created [though > the file should be larger] it is dutifully transfered to the XP box > via cp. OK, I assume you're running this from some sort of script? If the file isn't getting created fully, I'd go for it being tar at fault, as I know reiser has no problems with files well over 2GB. Personally, I'd just bypass the whole issue, and use a better method for backing up. My favourite system is rdiff-backup (rdiff-backup /usr /mnt/NEWSTU/genstubackup/fullsysbackup). -- Mike Williams -- [email protected] mailing list
