Hello Chuck!
How big are your multi-GB files, anyway?
They are approximately between 1 and 4 GB.
If you want a workaround to avoid the crash, consider using either rsync or dump/restore to copy the filesystem, rather than using tar.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try rsync. The initial idea I had was copy most of the files (which are fairly static) over with tar, which takes ca 1.5 hours, and then run rsync to catch these changes that had happened during that 1.5h period. I may as well just use rsync for the entire process.
Past experience on other FreeBSD systems has taught me to avoid dump/restore for large filesystems, because it seems to be an order of magnitude slower than tar.
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