On Tuesday 24 January 2006 21:40, Jeff wrote: > DUH ME! Open mouth, insert face... > > Ok, what I *meant* to say from post #1, is, the filesystem I'm > tarballing is quite large - 25g. The tar command should be able to > digest this, yes? Should I be worried?
Last week i back'ed up a machine with 4 80G disks as RAID5 with the method mentioned before. tar-size on the desination machine was about 120GB compressed (yes, one File:). Both filesystems are reiserfs. Restore again wih the same method, only the other way around, to 4 250GB-disks. No problems. Tip: check your destination tar file with tar -tzf ... or tar -tjf ... before you delete the source. Compression is a good check that no data has been changed during transfer of the data. <earny/> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
