Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an
emergency backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /home
directory.
My question: how big can a file get on FreeBSD? This tar.gz file is
already 5G. Hard drive space is no problem, but as I'm watching this
file grow,
John Almberg wrote:
Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an emergency
backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /home directory.
My question: how big can a file get on FreeBSD? This tar.gz file is
already 5G. Hard drive space is no problem, but as I'm watching t
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:25:03 -0400
John Almberg wrote:
> Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an
> emergency backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /home
> directory.
>
> My question: how big can a file get on FreeBSD? This tar.gz file is
> already 5G. Har
On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote:
John Almberg wrote:
Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an
emergency backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /
home directory.
My question: how big can a file get on FreeBSD? This tar.gz file
is already 5
With the default blocksize (16384) UFS2 can deal with files up to
128TB.
However traditional tar only supports up to 8GB while the newer ustar
format goes up to 64GB. It seems that at least on 7.x tar creates
ustar archives by default
Well, I'm already past 10GB, so good thing I'm on 7.1.
In the last episode (Apr 07), Bruce Cran said:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:25:03 -0400 John Almberg wrote:
> > Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an emergency
> > backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /home directory.
> >
> > My question: how big can a file get