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Someday all these old 2GB limits will be the stuff of memory

From: "Steve Wolfe" <un@codon.com> References: <3f33ccf9$0$10359$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <aej0hb.1kt.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>
Subject: Re: Using tar to backup large files
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:52:20 -0600

> > Once that > 2gb tar archive is created and split into 650mb chunks I
need to
> > know how to recombine them and successfuly extract the files from the
>
> Just cat them together and stream them into tar's stdin.

  That trick stands a pretty good chance of working to let tar extract
files from the > 2gb file in the first place:

cat foo.tar | tar -x

   However, I'll recommend either obtaining an updated "tar" package with
large file support, or simply download/compile with large file support.
For ten minute's worth of work, you'll never have to worry about tar
managing large files again.

steve

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