what is the disadvantage of 'tar' command?
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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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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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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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