Re: [Hampshire] Tar file max size

2025-03-26 Thread rmluglist2--- via Hampshire
>I am sure this problem has been solved before. Are you reinventing the wheel >in some way? That's what I'm bothered by - yes. >I found that open source backup software like "bacula" has solved all these >sorts of problems. >Is there a specific reason why you don't wish to use tried and tested b

[Hampshire] Tar file max size

2025-03-26 Thread rmluglist2--- via Hampshire
Hi all Coming back to a topic I raised a few months ago. I've been trying to get a write-once-read-many backup using tape. Trouble is - it keeps failing. It's a fair old amount of data to backup (20+Tb) but I think one of the issues is I'm trying: tar czvf /dev/nst0 /path/to/data