Hi, read about -L option in 'man tar'. So you can create several files
(<2Gb).
I hope that's help.
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Ken Walker wrote:
> >I am sure that you have your reasons for coping "to" an NT machine. Not
> >being an "NT" guru, I would have to ask "Must the transfer be done in one
> >chunk"? You did not say where the 8 gigs to be transferred resides. Having
> >knowledge of the origin of the transfer may help in the answer, afterall,
> we
> >are not mindreaders, are we?!
>
> I have a LM8.1 samba server being used by a series of cad classes ( i work
> at a university).
>
> In two days they created 5.8Gig of graphics files.
>
> The SCSI disk there all on is almost full, say 200Mb left. I've repeatedly
> asked them to delete any work / scans they no longer want.
>
> Have they listned,,,,,no.
>
> normally the classes don't go over 1G per class. But for some amazing reason
> they've all been told to produce A2 at 300dpi, one girl had 67 layers in
> Photoshop, with a single line on most of them. Derrrrrrr ( I wouldn't mind
> but there's nowhere for them to print A2's )
>
>
>
> I'm in the process of building a dual pII 333 machine with 6 disk raid 5,
> dat drive, cd burner.
>
> But want to give it a good thrashing before i commit it to its purpose (
> never done a software raid yet )
>
> The NT is really my peace of mind just in case something nasty happens.
>
> Based on the saying 'Given enough time, everything possible WILL happen.'
>
> The NT is a raid 5, with a 20/40 dat drive.
>
> doing a copy of all the contents works, but all permissions / groups /owners
> are lost, if i do a cp -a. I get 'permission denied'.
>
> I have read somewhere that it is possible to tar to another machines dat
> drive using something like
>
> tar -cvf //samba/dev/nst0 *
>
> but i couldn't get it to work, and as far as i know you can't share a
> non-block device across the network.
>
> I even tried before piping it through gzip, but it still stopped at the
> magic 2G.
>
> So really i'm buggered :o)
>
> Mr Smiley ( still smiling, sort of )
>
>
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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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Laboratório de Física Biológica
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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