On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I've got a backup system running where I rsync my desktop over to a backup server then I tar it up every night.<br>
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The tar seems to be capped at 2gigs. Any idea on why that would be? I wonder if it's not the filesystem type. I've got two large drives in the backup server, one is set up as ext4 (that's where the tar is happening) and the other is set up as linux native. I don't know why I set it up that way - could that be the problem, and what type of filesystem should I be using?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I am able to create tar archives that are 72GB in size, on a 64 bit version. So obviously, tar can do it.<br><br>Check ulimit -a and see if you have a limit on the maximum file size. Make sure you do it from the shell of the user that is doing the backup.<br>
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