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.
I did have a second backup made with cp -pR <stuff> <dest> so I've still got my all my stuff from which I can selectivly restore as needed but I'm wondering why tar didn't work? (While being very glad I made two backups.)
Is there a max size limit to a tar file? A bug in tar? Curiosity plagues me.
Thanks for any help.
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?
It just stops like it's at the end of the tar ffile. No errors at all.
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On Wed March 1 2006 6:35 am, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
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?
On 3/1/06, CentOS-List@jamesplace.net CentOS-List@jamesplace.net wrote:
It just stops like it's at the end of the tar ffile. No errors at all.
What filesystem is on the external drive that you backed up to? vfat/fat32 has a 4G file limit that you might be slamming into. Any sane filesystem should handle it just fine.
-- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety'' Benjamin Franklin 1775
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:31, CentOS-List@jamesplace.net wrote:
It just stops like it's at the end of the tar ffile. No errors at all.
Various versions of gnutar have 2 and 8 gig maximums on the file sizes they can handle. Do you know if the file where it fails is huge? Does anyone have a reference for which tar versions have which limit?
There are large 2-6GB files in the tar file, but not at the point where it stops. It never really gets close to that point.
For what its worth I'm runing tar-1.14-8 on a CentOS 4.2 fully updated/patched system.
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On Wed March 1 2006 1:11 pm, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:31, CentOS-List@jamesplace.net wrote:
It just stops like it's at the end of the tar ffile. No errors at all.
Various versions of gnutar have 2 and 8 gig maximums on the file sizes they can handle. Do you know if the file where it fails is huge? Does anyone have a reference for which tar versions have which limit?
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 13:43 -0600, CentOS-List@jamesplace.net wrote:
There are large 2-6GB files in the tar file, but not at the point where it stops. It never really gets close to that point.
For what its worth I'm runing tar-1.14-8 on a CentOS 4.2 fully updated/patched system.
Try 'cat foo.tar | tar x' and see if it helps. I seem to recall using this as a workaround for a similar problem a while back.
-David
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