topic Tar Backup Utility in Operating System - HP-UX

Tar Backup Utility

Arun Jain — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:55:10 GMT

Hi All,

Can anybody tell me that whether tar backup supports total size of tar file more than 2 GB and its properly restorable or not.
One more thing, please confirm the 2 Gb size is of file to be backed up or the total size of the tar backup.

Re: Tar Backup Utility

Ramesh S — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:19:05 GMT

Hi Arun

There is patch available to make it upto 8GB.
Once you apply patch that tapes cannot restored using unpatched tar!! If you are patching, patch all the systems.

For hp-ux 11.11

PHCO_36587

Thanks & Regards

Ramesh

Re: Tar Backup Utility

Steven Schweda — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:42:10 GMT

> [...] whether tar backup supports [...]

Which "tar"? As usual, some information
like your OS version might be interesting.

A Forum search for things like:
hp-ux tar 2gb 8gb
would lead to previous threads like:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1176422

> [...] please confirm the 2 Gb size is of
> file to be backed up or the total size of
> the tar backup.

Some of each, probably, but mostly the files
to be archived. (Assuming that the archive
destination supports large files, of course.)