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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 17:25, Richard Fish wrote: |
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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 see - thanks! |
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> I personally use dar64, as that *easily* handles all my data. |
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I'll do the same. I'm not sure yet whether I'll switch from tar yet, but |
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I'll give dar a try. Thanks for the info. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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