I'm running Redhat Linux 9.1. I am mounting a shared drive on my Windows XP Pro machine using a "mount -t smbfs" command. I'm then using tar (with compression) to try to backup the Linux system to that hard disk on my computer. Tar fails when the file size of the tar file exceeds 2 Gbytes. This is a 200 Gb drive with at least 90 Gb available. Backup Exec is also backing up to this drive and its files are 4 Gb to 20 Gb in size, so I don't think it's a limit from the Windows side. Does anybody have any ideas as to why I'm hitting this limitation? Does "mount" limit you to 2 Gb file sizes? I doubt tar has that limitation. (Does it?) The mount command is: mount -t smbfs -o username=xxxxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxxx,rw,debug=4,fmask=777,dmask=777 //larryxp/lrp_removable /mnt/lrp the tar command is: tar --create --verbose --file=/mnt/lrp/veritas/ntux.tar --gzip --total --exclude-from=etc/ntuxexcl * Both are being run from the root directory (and with a root login). These commands are in an executable script file that gets run by cron every weeknight. I am currently only backing up selected directories to keep the tar file size below the 2 Gb limit and that is working correctly. TIA Larry Pint National Truck Underwriting Managers, Inc.