[ale] Backing up >2GB partitions

[Eric Z. Ayers]

My suggestion would be to get a newer version of gnu tar.  It works
for backups > 2GB, although the verbose output says it backed up
-2343223432 bytes (or something similar)

-Eric.
Bob writes:
 > Anyone have recommendations for backing up partitions bigger than 2 GB.
 > A friend (using Mandrake 6.1) blew up GNU tar when the output tape reached
 > 2 GB and also blew up dump, with dump saying to get a newer version.
 > 
 > Ideas?  (The best I could suggest is to use GNU tar's exclude features to
 > to multiple backups, with each not exceeding 2 GB or try to increase dump's
 > limits.)
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Bob Toxen
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