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- From: auhl@fzi.de (Axel Uhl)
- Subject: Re: GTAR problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.100748.7935@fzi.de>
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- Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
- References: <1992Sep11.034151.30343@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:07:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.034151.30343@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>, mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre) writes:
- |> I have been using GTAR to back up about 160meg to tape. All has worked
- |> well until last night when it aborted saying 'Not enough memory'. I
- |> have 16megs and a good deal of space for my swap file and GTAR was the
- |> only thing running.
- |>
- |> I suspect it was due the huge number of small files containing source
- |> code on my system as this is the only major change since my last
- |> backup.
- |>
- |> Has anyone alse had this problem and found a solution?
- |>
- |>
- |> Trevor Lampre
- |> <mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au>
-
- Yes, I had nearly the same problem. I used GTAR to backup about 75meg and it
- yielded the same message. It did not abort, as you mentioned, but it left out
- a directory. This directory contained my CorelDraw 2.0 installation with about
- 250 files in it.
-
- I have collected some garbage and tried to reorganize the directory by using
- subdirs. I have not tried to back the HD up since then, but I will report
- the results.
-
- Axel.
-