Re: [Bug-tar] GNU Tar 1.16.1 size limitation on multiple tape arc hive

[Joerg Schilling]

"Petcher, Daniel" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Great suggestions, Joerg!
>
> I'd love to turn my LTO-3 drive's HW compression off, but I'm not sure how.
> I'll address that issue later.
>
> I don't have the option of changing my data to refrain from including *.tar
> files on my tape; others have stored these data as their own archive on the
> server, and I'm dumping their archives (among other data) to tape with tar.
>
> I don't think merely having a *.tar.bz2 is a problem. There are 128 other
> *.tar.bz2 files, 102 *.tar.gz, and 1643 *.zip (mostly from WinZip) files
> that verified before I reached the 10 GB *.tar.bz2 file that stopped me.

I don't think so too.

I believe that this is an internal GNU tar problem and this is why I suggested 
to try out star. I know that several people use star to archive really huge 
filesystems on multi volume tape archives. As long as the tape drive and the 
driver in the OS behave correctly this should work for you too.

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

The latest star snapshot is in the schily consolidation:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/schily-2007-12-12.tar.bz2

Jörg

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