On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote:
John Almberg wrote:
Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an
emergency backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /
home directory.
My question: how big can a file get on FreeBSD? This tar.gz file
is already 5G. Hard drive space is no problem, but as I'm watching
this file grow, I'm wondering if there is some file size limit
that is going to make this long backup abort.
Naturally, that will happen when the backup is almost complete :-)
-- John
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Max file size 2^73 bytes
(8 ZiB <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebibyte>)
That should just about do it...
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