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Carme Torca
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limit of tar??

Hi,

I am doing one tar in HP-UX 11.11, but when it arrive at 2Megas it stop and outs this message:

Tar: end of tape
Tar: to continue, enter device/file name when ready or null string to quit.


I have space in the filesystem, and all its ok.

> bdf .
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol9 10485760 10142500 327030 97% /filesystemA



Is there one limit with tar??.

Thanks!,
Carmen.
Users are not too bad ;-)
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Pete Randall
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Re: limit of tar??

Carmen,

You can use gnu tar ( http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.15/ ) or I believe there is a patch for HP's tar that will allow for files > 2GB.


Pete

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Trond Haugen
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Re: limit of tar??

Yes that a limitation in tar. Actually tar "works as designed".
For backup I would recomend fbackup.
You can also use GNU-tar if you download it.

Regards,
Trond
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Pete Randall
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Re: limit of tar??

Peter Godron
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Re: limit of tar??

Carmen,
if you are taring to disk, also ensure that your partition is set up to cope with files > 2Gb.

fsadm /dev/vg?/r?????

should show largefiles.
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: limit of tar??

Patched hp tar can go up to 8 GB.

For backups though fbackup is a little easier to use, but it goes straight to tape.

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