> The way around the 2G linit is to access the drive as a raw defice,
> instead of a file on the file system.
>
> tar -czvf /dev/hdc1 <files to backup>
Does anyone do this? I've been thinking about it, but how do you
deal with bad blocks, etc.? Can you put multiple volumes on
the same drive? If so, how do you seek to each volume?
I'm doing tar-over-ssh backups to a 40GB caching drive(in <2GB)
chunks), then taping the caching drive as a separate step to DLT.
This gets me encrypted backup transfers through compressed transport
thanks to ssh, and allows the tape drives to run at best streaming
speeds thanks to running off the local volume.
Eventually, I may shift to using bru, as it's plug compatible with
tar, but supposedly has a more reliable tape format.
I sure hate to lose the cross-platform universality of the gnu tar
tape format, though.
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