[Bug-tar] Tar archive 5 Gigbyte large {Scanned}

[SW]

Hi,

I have a tar.gz file which is about 5 GB in size which I have been having 
lots of problem trying to move from a linux box over to my windows xp 
system. I can download it from the linux box to my windows xp just fine, but 
I can't seem to un-tar it with any program. My default program is winrar 
which fails w/ "!Unexpected end of archive". So, I tried the win32 port of 
tar but to only find out that it can't read compressed archives tar.gz. :-(

So, I tried to just tar the file without any compression but that still 
fails even though the tar dos command untarred it without any errors, it was 
missing some files. The interesting thing is it didn't give me any errors 
during the extraction which made me to believe the archive was 
complete...but that was not the case.

How do others go about taring large files? I use the following but I'm 
hoping someone here can tell me of a better way to do this or maybe tar is 
not the best solution for this:

tar --verify -czvf archive.tar.gz directory/

Can I create multi volume archive and specify the size of each (like 800MB 
each)?

Thanks,

SW



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