Roland Illig wrote:

> I have written a little archiver program, since both pax and tar cannot 
> create files larger than 4 GB. :(

I'm not so sure about that - here's a recent backup of my home
directory:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  27168829440 Nov  8 00:39 simonb.tar

Cheers,
Simon.