help me with tar

It's a long time since i wrote here but i've got a problem with tar i want to save some data from a server. So i use tar to compress my files before putting them on a storage band. But when my tar file override 2 GO, the programm exit and i can't save all my data. The server can coutain up to 80

Re: help me with tar

But when my tar file override 2 GO, the programm exit and i can't save all my data. You need lfs patch to create a file with a size biggest than 2 GO. However, you can use this backup command instead: tar -C /orig -cf - ./ | tar -C /dest -xf -

Re: help me with tar

High, On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Angel MAN wrote: It's a long time since i wrote here but i've got a problem with tar i want to save some data from a server. So i use tar to compress my files before putting them on a storage band. But when my tar file override 2 GO, the programm exit and i

Re: help me with tar

So i use tar to compress my files before putting them on a storage band. You do not need to create a file before. Use tar without the option 'f'.