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in reply to Re: Probelm getting a large compressed tar file over ssh.
in thread Probelm getting a large compressed tar file over ssh.

I was following this thread, and I never saw anything about the GNU tar portion.

I've had issues in the past where GNU tar chokes if the tar file created exceeds 2GB in size. I don't know if this has been fixed, but I was seeing this issue as late as Sept of 2004.
Maybe...