On Saturday 10 February 2007 05:42, Janus wrote: > I need a simple system for regular backups. The easiest would be to make > one big tar file out of my home directory and copy it to an external disk > via scp. > > But is there a max size limit for tar files? Can I trust tar and make one > big tar file, e.g. 25 GB of my entire home directory?
I cannot answer that question, but I've been VERY happy with DAR and KDar doing my backups and splitting them into 2GB slices. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
