> > I don't have the script anymore. It is among the files lost, but it was > pretty > much straight forward, making use of: > tar -czf backupfile.tar.gz folders/ of/ my/ choice/. > > After creating the backups I just cp(1)ed them to an msdosfs formated > usb stick and got them onto 8.2 this way, so the famous ascii/binary > trap shouldn't be > an issue here. > > Just a thought... how large were the tar.gz files? Are you maybe hitting on a file size limit and the .tar.gz files are getting truncated? Not sure what the limit is for msdosfs.
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