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Old 06-19-2013
is the remote host accessible via lan? is it intranet?
To my knowlege the limitation is more on the size of the file being archived not so much on the archive itself, but FTP has serious limitations...
The files are all less than 2GB no? ( the limit would be 8 I think...)
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Old 06-19-2013
For testing, we are using a vpn tunnel to move files, FTP to the IP address of the server. I don't believe any individual file is bigger than 2GB. I have been using your method, moving various files this morning with no problem...then just got a checksum error, but I'm not sure what it means....

tar: 0511-169 A directory checksum error on media; 123212 not equal to 40325.

Any idea?


Forget the question about the checksum error; I accidently changed my FTP to binary.
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