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tar creating 0 byte file

Abhilash Krishnan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:47:56 GMT

Hi all
while i am trying to tar one of my dab file having size 2Gb it creating 0 byte tar.Hence creating problem.Please help me out.

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Abhilash Krishnan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:50:08 GMT

Hi all
while i am trying to tar one of my dbf file (database file)having size 2Gb it creating 0 byte tar.Hence creating problem.Please help me out.

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Taifur — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:11:56 GMT

Hi Biju

Follow below steps,

#tar -cvf yourfilename.tar yourfilename

Example:
1. Archive all files and directories in directory my_project in the current directory to a file called my_project.TAR, also in the current directory:

#tar -cvf my_project.TAR my_project

2. Archive files from /usr/include and /etc:

#tar cv -C /usr/include . -C /etc .

Rgds//
Taifur

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Dennis Handly — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:24:09 GMT

tar is suppose to be able to handle 8 Gb on 11.23. What OS version or tar patch do you have? 11.11 only handles 2 Gb.

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Johnson Punniyalingam — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:32:59 GMT

Hi Biju,

>>while i am trying to tar one of my dab file having size 2Gb it creating 0 byte <<

Are you trying to creat tar file to Tape or to you local drive..?

creating tar file to the Tape
==============================
tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0m

Creating tar file local
=======================
tar -cvf

Thanks,
Johnson

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Avinash20 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:24:29 GMT

"while i am trying to tar one of my dab file having size 2Gb it creating 0 byte tar.Hence creating problem.Please help me out. "

I did the same and my tar file also became 0KB while extracting
How..

Tar the file (/etc/passwd)
tar -cvf /tmp/passwd.tar /etc/passwd
while extracting,
# tar cvf /tmp/passwd.tar
instead of
# tar xvf /tmp/passwd.tar

Also are you able to create a tar file of 2 GB of less.
If yes, you have to install the latest tar patch which support upto 8Gb of size

For 11.11 -- PHCO_36587
For 11.23 -- PHCO_33431

All the best !!

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Avinash20 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:26:05 GMT

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Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Patrick Wallek — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:49:19 GMT

>> 11.11 only handles 2 Gb.

With patches I believe 11.11 can handle 8GB file with tar. Unfortunately the patch DB appears to be down right now so I can't search for the appropriate patch to enable this.

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Robert-Jan Goossens — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:59:43 GMT

Link to the 11.11 tar patch PHCO_36587

http://www13.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?BC=main|search|patchDetail{PHCO_29229,{hpux:11.00,}}|patchDetail{PHCO_28992,{hpux:11.11,}}|&patchid=PHCO_36587&sel={hpux:11.11,}

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Abhilash Krishnan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:36:27 GMT

Hi thanks for your reply

I am trying tar on tape
tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0mn

then my orignal file becomes zero byte.

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Suraj K Sankari — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:43:12 GMT

Hi,

Is there any error messages you are getting at you terminal or syslog.log
please provide the output of your command
tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0mn

Suraj

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Abhilash Krishnan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:52:44 GMT

no error was there

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Suraj K Sankari — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:58:29 GMT

Hi,

If you don't mind then please post the output of your command

tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0mn

Suraj

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Abhilash Krishnan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:05:16 GMT

actually i right now i dont have ouput of that now and i cant run that command right now because database is running.

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Suraj K Sankari — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:52:04 GMT

>> then my orignal file becomes zero byte.

If you give the same command to other file not your database file what you are getting?

Still the original file becomes Zero.

If yes then please post the output along with your command.

Suraj

Re: tar creating 0 byte file

Abhilash Krishnan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:41:12 GMT

hi now i am not on the site i will run the tar command and share the output afterwords
thanks for you reply.