[ale] tar probelms

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Been there, done that.

The problem is not with TAR, but rather with the ext2 filesystem, which
will not permit a file of >2.1GB.  When you hit this limit, TAR will
blindly carry on, just like nothing was wrong.

If you were using TAR for its original purpose (tape) then you could go to
whatever the length of your tape was.

A better idea, one that does not run into a file size problem, is to tar
the content, and pipe it to a second tar in a destination filesystem.  You
will end up with a replica of the filesystem in the new location.  Here's
how:

tar -cf - <files> | (cd <dest>; tar -xvf -)

For example, if I have a file system /aux1 and I want to replicate it to
/aux2, I would do this:

cd /aux1    #because that's the root of the tarball
tar -cf - . | (cd /aux2; tar -xvf -)

Does this help?

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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