As others have suggested, instead of tarring it up at all just scp or rsync to the NT box. An additional wrinkle required to make that work is to install Cygwin on the NT box so it can thunk Unix permissions to NT permissions -- since the two OSs have completely different security models, this is required to get meaningful output on the NT side if you're not tar'ing it up (which sounds problematic due to size).
Another tar tip, though not likely to save your bacon here, is to use j in place of z to pipe through bzip2 instead of gzip -- compression is much better. Examples: tar cjvf myfile.tar.bz2 mydir/ && tar xjvf myfile.tar.bz2. On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 07:22, 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 ) > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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