I use rar for linux to back up the files on my ftp server.  I just tell it
to make the rar files smaller than 2GB.

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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Mark Phillips wrote:

> What is the best (or at least a good) way to perform backups?
>
> I have about 4.5 GB in my home directory, and I just installed a new 120
> GB drive on my network to use for backups. I tried a simple tar and
> compress, and I ran into a 2.0 Gb file size limitation. There seems to
> be a 2.2 GB avi file in the files I want to back up. After an initial
> backup, I would like to perform incremental backups on a periodic basis.
>
> Is there a Debian package that will handle this task?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Phillips
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