Error on stdout while backing up

[Nils Kassube]

Leif Gregory wrote:
> I use the following script to run periodic backups of my hard drive.

[...]

> Previous backups were around 4GB, but this time I got an error I'm not
> sure about.
>
> gzip: stdout: File too large
>
> Does gzip have a file size limitation? If I've outgrown this method of
> backing up, what should I start looking to implement?

AFAIK gzip or tar don't have a file size limit. But if you are writing to 
a FAT32 file system, the file size limit is 4GB.


Nils