Tony Nelson wrote: > The problem is the size of root.star. There is a 2 GiB limit for files in > a ISO9660 filesystem (and the workaround reportedly does not work in > general). Probably star's tsize option is needed, to split the backup into > 1 or 2 GiB "tapes". Yeah, I'm trying it now with a 4GB and a 3.5GB files. I'll let you know in a couple of hours whether or not it worked.... I should be able to cat them back together and read the .star table of contents..... -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)