Transfer 10GB file from HP-UX to Solaris

[Mousse]

How can I transfer a file from HP-UX to Solaris? I need to tranfer the file on tape.

The file is 10 GB

I tried tar and cpio but the max file size is 8GB?

Thanks for your help
Regards,

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The Gnu version of tar is available for both platforms and will fit your requirement; however, you can use the split command (if this is a binary file then split on bytes rather than lines) to split the file into multiple files of 2GB (or a little less) then either cpio or stanard tar will handle the files. When you get them on the other end, the cat command will put assemble them back into a single file.

[Patrick Wallek]

You might try installing GNU Tar on both machines.

http://directory.fsf.org/sysadmin/backup/tar.html

[Raj D.]

Hi Mousee,


Try GNU version of tar.

Check this out:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.15.1/


Cheers,
Raj.

[Michael Steele_2]

2 GB is the limit for cpio and tar as well as pax.

So download Gnu tar.

[Joseph C. Denman]

Are these systems on the same network? You could just FTP the file over.

Also, you could download the GNu tar to put it on a tape. The tape will need to be DAT 3 or 4.

...jcd...

[Mousse]

Thanks a lot everyone.

I installed gnu tar and I did my backup without issue.

Best regards,
Mousse