Hi. On Sat 2003-03-08 at 12:31:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to have a problem with my tar backups.
Yes, you do have. ;)
> When I check the backed up information, I see:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 102400000 Mar 8 12:00 backup1.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 102400000 Mar 7 12:00 backup2.tar.gz
The size is exactly 100.000*1KB. Looks like you are hitting an imposed
file size limit. Type "ulimit -a" and you should get something like
[...]
file size (blocks, -f) 100000
That means the system won't allow you to write files bigger than
100.000KB. One obvious way to change it is to use "ulimit" itself,
although non-root users are limited in the ways changing the limits.
From the top of my head, I am not sure where to change the system wide
defaults. /etc/security/limits.conf might be one place to look at.
HTH,
Benjamin.
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