It just stops like it's at the end of the tar ffile. No errors at all. === On Wed March 1 2006 6:35 am, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 at 12:53am, CentOS-List at 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?