On Feb 14, 2012 7:37 AM, "Mike Kelly" <mdke...@ualr.edu> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > -- > Mike Kelly > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
or perhaps pulled the drive before unmounting... with pending writes. just a thought. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
