[ale] tar probelms

[Jerry Z. Yu]

	I'd simply compress/decompress them on the fly.

	tar cvzf blah.tar.gz ./virtualhost1

	tar cvf - ./virtualhost1 | gzip -9c > blah.tar.gz


	then again, I guess you already knew those tricks.


On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Ken Nagorski wrote:

#Hi there
#
#I am having trouble creating tarballs over two gigs. I have a couple
#servers I want to move and most of them have two gigs worth of vitrual
#hosts on them. I would like to be able to do them in one big tarball each
#( breasking them up is really lame! ) Does anyone know about this. I have
#checked on the web but can't find anything of use. I saw somehting about
#compiling tar with a tiny option or somehting but I recompiled on one of
#these machines and still had to same problem.
#
#Any suggestions?
#
#Thank you
#Ken
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