[TriLUG] backups revisted

[Jon Carnes]

I've seen warnings about tar's greater than 1Gb, but my drive can hold up to 
4 Gb of data and I've filled it up with no problems (meaning I could do 
restores from it later - and they actually worked!).

Note, my tape drive does its own compression via hardware so I leave off the 
"z" option when doing tar's to and from the device.

Jon

 --- Original Message: Friday 03 May 2002 10:06 pm ---
> Yeah that’s what I was looking for.  Are there any file size limits to
> tar though?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf
> Of Jon Carnes
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:04 AM
> To: Vestal, Roy L.; 'trilug at trilug.org'
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] backups revisted
>
> My tape drive is /dev/st0.  To backup to the device I use:
>   tar -czf /dev/st0 /vol/backup
>
> To restore from the backup:
>   tar -xzf /dev/st0 /vol/restore
>
> Is that what you are looking for?
>
> --- Original Message: Friday 03 May 2002 09:13 am ---
>
> > I have a similar question to add: I have an old Jumbo 250 tape drive
>
> (hey,
>
> > I'm cheap), that I'd like to use for archiving. Is there a way to use
>
> it? I
>
> > have compiled support for it, but I'm "scared" to use it.
> >
> > FYI...I use my CD burner for backups, but I have some info on tape I'd
> > still like to have.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JoJo Almario [mailto:jalmario at intrah.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:28 PM
> > To: trilug at trilug.org
> > Subject: [TriLUG] backups revisted
> >
> >
> > I know I should have asked this while the topic was fresh but...Oh
>
> well!
>
> > My question is this:
> >
> > Are there any file size limits to the tar command?  compressed or
> > uncommpresed?
> >
> > What is the best way to throw it to tape?
> >
> > These questions came to me after i did a tar -tf on one of my backup
> > files and kept getting "tar: unexpected eof " type errors.
> >
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