Each night, I take our data files and tar them into one tarball (about 59
GB). Then I ftp the tar to a 2nd box.
The tar command works fine for me. I did have problems with the ftp
process, but that was due to some time-out issues.
I'm using a script via cron. The statement is:
# tar cvf $TAR_FILE $DATA_FS 2>> $MSG_FILE.err 1>> $MSG_FILE
My OS version is:
#oslevel -r
5200-03
The script does lots of things, but I can't see where anything would affect
the success of the tar command.
Good luck - Dale
"Michael" <azmk@gazeta.pl> wrote in message
news:c08cbd4f.0505170948.782a0694@posting.google.c om...
>I need backup files that count more than 2 GB
>
> I used this:
>
> tar cf /backup/destination.tar /source
>
> but after this command destination.tar has about 20 GB so I think I
> should use pax Is it true? And how command should I enter instad tar
> cf?
>
> AIX version:
>
> # oslevel -r
> 5200-04
> # 
