[ale] Kernel Panic question

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joe Knapka)]

Erg. 'Twould most ignominiously suck to have to back up
a 20GB partition in 10MB chunks. FWIW, I've made backups
of my 4GB /home partition onto TR4 tapes using tar and
did not have this problem.

-- Joe

Cor van Dijk wrote:
> 
> Hello Brian and Joe
> 
> I had some sad experiences with tape backups. When a directory holds more than say
> 20 MB some subdirectories may be empty. This happened to me with both "taper" and
> plain "tar". I do not know what causes this, but nowadays I keep my backups in the
> neighborhood of 10 MB each. This avoids the problem.  Cor van Dijk.
> 

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