Zbip2 Size limitatations ?

[Franck Y]

John,
I'll try with recompiling bzip2...
Hope it will work...
Happy new year!
Franck

On 12/31/05, John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Franck Y wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I make several backup with bzip2, it seems that he has the better compression.
> >
> > I do my backup like this for several folders.
> >
> > tar cvf - /home/data/ | bzip2 -9 > /backup/data.tar.bz2
> >
> > When i test the archive with bzip2 -t archive.tar.bz2, everything is
> > correct when the archive is under 1 Go. But i get CRC error when it's
> > upper ....
> >
> >
> > Has anyone experience this ?
>
> I have SUSE 10 on my laptop where I've been playing with some fairly big
> files. I just tested a smaller one, a little over 6 Gbytes compressed,
>
> It's fine.
>
> My files are not tarballs, they're images of paritions and disks, and I
> did not pipe them into bzip2, I wrote the data to the files and then
> compressed them. I don't know whether the different way I compressed my
> data is relevant, but it might be.
>
>
> I don't use tar that way, I always tell tar to do the compression. It
> should not be different, but it might be.
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
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Franck