rsync: write failed --- File too large . advise ??

[rveri]

Expert,
While copying data from linux host to hp-ux 11.00 , after 1 hr got this error:
Please advise ,

command used:
# rsync -avzrl host1:/u22/nfs_ss/host_data/* .

rsync: write failed on "/u1/aaocs/Data.tar.gz": File too large (27)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(302) [receiver=3.0.6]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (10339667 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600) [generator=3.0.6]



rsync ver on hp-ux :
** rsync version 3.0.6 protocol version 30

Failed on the file size , that is 6.4GB.

Thanks in advance.

[Tingli]

Check the file system whether it is for largefile option. If it is not, then it won't take file larger than 2g.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Verify that your destination filesystem supports 'largefiles':

# fsadm -F vxfs /u1

If 'largefiles' is returned it does; If 'nolargefiles' then not.

Regards!

...JRF...

[rveri]

Thanks both ...
Found it was nolargefiles with JRF's command ,
- Fixed it with # fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /u1

[Bill Hassell]

Just for completeness, older versions of rsync could not handle files larger than 2GB. The latest version will handle any file size as long as the remote side can handle the file.