On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se> 
wrote:
>
>> > I'm thinking of a situation when the temp-file is so big it fills up
> e.g. / and fails silently, and you won't notice it because you're using the
> web-GUI.
>> >
>>
>> I don't think so, but I normally use tar unless I know the result will
>> be small.  I have run into an inherent size limit in zip in other
>> contexts.
>
> Sorry for hijacking this thread...
>
> When you mention in other contexts, you mean as in "not BackuPC"?
>

Yes - specifically it was in twiki, a perl based wiki application.  It
has a tool to backup and restore its own content that you are supposed
to be able to use when upgrading the code, but it failed with > 4Gb of
content because of the zip format limit.

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   Les Mikesell
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