For those that need to use tar for tape backup, a generic question that they will ask is how big a tar file can be ? According to some online research, for Kernel version higher than 2.4.0 supporting Large File System, the maximum size of a tar file is 2TB. I think this is big enough for any enterprise backup applications. If I have a tape drive supporting 400 GB per tape, I will have to use 5 tapes.
Can we have such powerful backup tool in Windows OS ? Probably not.....
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