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 ) > > -- ----------------------- Alan Wilter S. da Silva ----------------------- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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