tar and other compression utilities getting dated

[Jim C.]

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How does one make a multi-volume archive *without* actually using
multiple volumes?  I yearn for the days of pkzip.

I know someone who is going to be making a backup system soon and I had
to point out that if he uses a FAT32 partition for backup he will be
pushing the file size limits as well as loosing his file
ownerships/permissions.  As I told him, he can eliminated the
ownerships/permissions problem by using compression but not the file
size problem.  In fact, I've also had this problem. FAT32 is the only
choice right now since the systems in question need to be readable from
'doze on a USB 2.0 hard drive.

Not that it matters.  With the advent of large media files, it is
becoming a problem to make a simple archive that may incidentally
include a cdrom image or something.  Crashing is just plain not
acceptable behavior.

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