On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:31:26PM +0100, Paul wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I seem to have a problem with my tar backups. > > When I check the backed up information, I see: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 102400000 Mar 8 12:00 backup1.tar.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 102400000 Mar 7 12:00 backup2.tar.gz > > Weird, since the backup1 file (made today) should be bigger than the one > that rolled over to backup2 from yesterday; I installed OpenOffice 1.0.2. > > When listing the contents of the backup1 file (tar -tzf backup1.tar.gz), tar > lists part of the file and then tells me > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > I run Mandrake 8.2 with > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 > > The command I use to make the backup-file is > > tar -czf backup1.tar.gz -X ~/div/dont_do ~/* > > where ~/div/dontdo contains the extensions of some files I do not want > backed up. > > Am I hitting some kind of limit with tar files? Would be strange, at work we > tar files that grow into the 1Gb size (running HP-UX though). > > Paul
If you can't beat the limit, use the tar options for a multivolume archive. It took me a long time to figure out that in additionn to these options, you can specify the --file option multipe times to tell tar which multiple file manes to use for the pieces of the tarfile. And the multivolume option does *not* allow you to compress while tarring. Here's a command I use to back up a WIndows C partition: tar --one-file-system --multi-volume --tape-length=2000000 -c --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-1.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-2.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-3.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-4.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-5.tar /mnt/win_c -- hendrik > > -- > If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, > thou wilt speak twice the better for it. > -William Penn > > http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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