topic Re: cpio for files larger than 4GB in Operating System - Linux

cpio for files larger than 4GB

TJ_22 — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:07:14 GMT

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone new of a way to backup files larger than 4GB on Linux EN 3.0.

I curently have cpio-2.5-4.RHEL3 installed.

Thanks,

T.J.

Re: cpio for files larger than 4GB

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:25:22 GMT

Shalom,

I think you are at the maximum.

See http://www.gnu.org for something bigger capacity.

I can do files up to 8 GB in HP-UX with a patch. Just in case there is an option.

SEP

Re: cpio for files larger than 4GB

Stuart Browne — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:40:32 GMT

I've been able to create 8.5GB Bzipped CPIO archives with no issue.

This is on an FC4 box however, using cpio-2.6-9.FC4.

What you could try is grabbing the source RPM, and re-making it on your RHE3 box (rpmbuild --rebuild cpio-2.6-9.FC4.src.rpm).

Re: cpio for files larger than 4GB

Sergejs Svitnevs — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:39:58 GMT

You can use `-H odc' command line option on cpio - that being the ability to archive input files up to 8 Gb.

Regards