Hi, > use it to recover the system - all fine. RedHat 7.? seems to have 2Gb limit. Nope. I regularly make 2.2GB backup files (and larger) using tar on a Red Hat 7.3 system. Processor is an AMD 266 MHz. Tar, NFS and SSH have no problems with that file but viewing it over Samba 2.2.7-3.7.3 shows the file as being something like 16,777,777 TB! -- Regards, +-----------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Peter Kiem .^. | E-Mail : <zordah@xxxxxxxxxx> | | Zordah IT /V\ | Mobile : +61 0414 724 766 | | IT Consultancy & /( )\ | WWW : www.zordah.net | | Internet Services ^^-^^ | ICQ : "Zordah" 866661 | +-----------------------------+---------------------------------+ My current spamtrap address is est1103@xxxxxxxxxx