Would FTP be an option? And once the files are copied over on the NT machine, you could "zip" it into a smaller file, maybe? What do you think?
On Friday 29 November 2002 12:35 pm, you wrote: > Yep tried that, it doesn't give you the option to change the file name and > assumes its going onto a removable media. So when you say yes to the next > volume, it overwrites what it just did. > > In the end you get one file of your specified size and it only contains the > end of the tarring :o( > > ps checked on the nt and it is ntfs :o( > > for fat16 and fat32 max file size is 4Gig-1byte. NTFS 16 extabytes-1k. ( > wow ) > > If its a limitation on tar, how come it will go above this with tape > backups ? > > or is it just a limitation between Linux and nt > > many thanks > > Mr Smiley > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Wilter Sousa > da Silva > Sent: 29 November 2002 5:14 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep..... > > > 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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