I am using a robocopy script to backup a lot of files to an external HDD, some small and some quite large (>1GB). Sometimes robocopy will hang on a larger file...until I press ctrl-c which rather than ...

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I wrote a short script to backup critical files to a second HDD. However, some of the tar files created would have been quite large. I got the errors shown below and the tar files were only 1.99 GB in ...