what is the disadvantage of 'tar' command?

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what is the disadvantage of 'tar' command?..

Answer / srinivas kalvacherla

1)tar can not be used to take the back up of file which is
having more than 2 gb space.
2) tar can't skip the bad blocks.
3) tar can't to take the multi voulume backups.
4)it is used only for normal files (or) directories not for
file systems.

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what is the disadvantage of 'tar' command?..

Answer / phani

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Is not aware of file system boundaries
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Length of full path name cannot exceed 255 characters
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Cannot be used to create multiple tape volumes

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what is the disadvantage of 'tar' command?..

Answer / errabelli

1)tar command can't take bad and device files back ups
2)tar command can't span multiple taps
3)to take back only up to 2gb files only

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