Re: [CentOS] Problem with large tar file.

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 at 12:53am, CentOS-List@jamesplace.net wrote

I have just completed installing CentOS 4.2 (I came over here from Fedora-Land (core-3)). I did this via a fresh install. I tar'd everything to an external drive reinstalled the new stuff and everything is working very well.

I've just got one issue. I have a full system backup Backup.tar that has a size of 78,717,880,320. When I issue the command tar -xvf Backup.tar I get only about 111MB of data restored. Basically /root and a couple other odd things of little consequence.

And then what happens? Does it give you an error message? Does it just stop restoring? Does it slow way down?