On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:51:12AM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:38:12AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Another factor I just thought of is that tar, commonly used as part of a > > backup procedure, can on some systems only handle files up to 8 GB in size. > > > > There are supposed to be newer formats that can avoid that restriction, but > > it's not clear how widely available these are and what the incantation is > > to > > get at them. Of course we don't use tar directly, but if we ever make > > large > > segments the default, we ought to provide some clear advice for the user on > > how to make their backups. > > By my reading, GNU tar handles larger files and no-one else (not even a > POSIX standard tar) can... > > Have a nice day, > -- > Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > > Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while > > boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
The star program written by Joerg Schilling is a very well written POSIX compatible tar program that can easily handle files larger than 8GB. It is another backup option. Cheers, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
