Copying files over 2G in size

[GTENCSS]

I need to copy oracle database files which spans several directories and some are 2G are greater . The tar and cpio doesn't copy files over 2G in size. I'm not sure if i had the right options but it didn't work with either tar or cpio. Is is possible to copy dirs with tar or cpio with files over 2G in size. My workaround was CP?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The standard versions of tar and cpio are limited to 2GB. You could have installed the Gnu version of tar. It is available from any of the HP-UX Porting Centre's. The HP method of doing this is fbackup/frestore which does not suffer from the 2GB limitation.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

Nope tar & cpio will not handle files > 2Gb.
I would recommend gtar (GNU tar) available at
http://www.gnu.org

Rgds,
Jeff

[Sajid_1]

hello,

Yes, that's the limitation. You have two options:
a) get GNU tar from the porting centre
b) Use any other copy method

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

gnu tar works for bigger sizes over 2.0 Gb



Manoj Srivastava

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you are running 11.11 there are patches for 'tar' and 'cpio' that enable 8GB handling:

For 11.11 tar - PHCO_26423
For 11.11 pax - PHCO_26422

Regards!

...JRF...

[Wodisch_1]

Hi,

with files of that size you wouldn't want to use "tar" nor "cpio", would you?
Which do complain after experiencing a dropout on the tape and ABORT (leaving you with NOTHING).
And perhaps your files are even bigger than 8GB, so the patch won't help much...
How about to investigate into "split-mirror copies", and/or commercial backup-software, like Omniback (ok, it's called "DataProtector", by now)?

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch

[George Petrides_1]

Also, you need to make sure that the target directory/filesystem is set for large files else your copy will fail no matter what command you use. Use fsadm to check and change it if necessary.
George

[Trond Haugen]

Another option is to use fbackup.

Regards,
Trond

[Martin Burnett_2]

Hello,

Here is what I use:

fbackup -i /var/adm/sw -f - | (cd /data; frecover -Xrf -)

This example is using fbackup to copy the /var/adm/sw directory to standard out, then pipes it into frecover which extracts it directly into the new directory /data.

fbackup does not have the 2gb limitation and is standard on HP-UX systems.

Thanks for participating in the forums,

Martin
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