[Mimedefang] backup quarantine directory, large number of files.

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 12:03, Lucas Albers wrote:
> I am trying to backup my quarantine directory.
> So I can delete the original from disk.
> 
> But it appears tar is unable to handle the large number of files.
> 
> What method have you used to backup upwards of 30K directories in a
> directory, on linux?

Tar does not have any limit on the number of files it can
handle, but you must let it recurse the directory itself
instead of letting the shell attempt to expand a wildcard
filename on the command line.  That is, if you tried
'tar cf /path/to/archive *', use 'tar cf /path/to/archive .'
instead.

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  Les Mikesell
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