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On 10/24/06, Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:58, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> > I use dar and USB2 disks for my backups. Faster, cheaper, and with |
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> > more capacity than most tape drives. |
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> I hadn't spotted dar before. Can you explain the use of the dar32 and dar64 |
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> USE flags? The use.desc description doesn't help much. |
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By default dar uses an arbitrary-precision integer implementation to |
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handle archives of basically any size. But it takes more memory and |
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CPU cycles to use, so you can compile dar with dar32 or dar64 to use |
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32-bit or 64-bit integers in place of the infinint. If you use dar32, |
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you cannot create or restore from any archive larger than 4G, or |
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backup files larger than 4G, etc. |
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I personally use dar64, as that *easily* handles all my data. |
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http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Limitations.html |
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-Richard |
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