Thanks Sergey! Required a bit of trial and error but got it working eventually and now managing to back up the whole system.
Steve From: Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 2 January 2026 at 16:35 To: Steve Bowes-Phipps <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Improvement Suggestion Hi Steve, > I can’t seem to find the answer I need online but is it possible to get tar > to backup to multiple files, so that I can circumvent the file size > restriction on Linux of 4GB? Yes, it is possible. Use multi-volume archives, as described in https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fsoftware%2Ftar%2Fmanual%2Fhtml_node%2FMulti_002dVolume-Archives.html&data=05%7C02%7C%7Ccf333496a7174a28ffea08de4a1cdfff%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639029685032637383%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vtbp0NPsWM7ei0GVD9twYitsvjlS8K93FDr0TYAvRVA%3D&reserved=0<https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Multi_002dVolume-Archives.html> Regards, Sergey
