copy disk data CPIO: Value too large to be stored in data type

[Michelle Daalman_1]

Hello all,

I am trying to copy the data which is in /dump in vg03 to a dedicated vg: vg08. As /dump has largefiles enabled, I also enabled this for the new FS on vg08.

#fsadm -F vxfs -o /dump_temp
#find . -depth -print | cpio -pd /dump_temp

It comes back with the following output:

#"xxxxx.dmp": Value too large to be stored in data type
cpio: Size of xxxxx.dmp > 2GB. Not dumped.

Now, I am lost, I don't know what's causing it.
And yes, largefiles IS set.

Anybody?

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

cpio and tar do not support manipulation of files > 2GB.
Get the gnu tar from
check here

https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/#Downloads

Thanks

[T G Manikandan]

Also you can get it from the hp porting center

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/


Thanks

[John Poff]

Hi,

In HP-UX, the cpio and tar utilities have a 2Gb file size limit built in. You can copy files larger than 2Gb by using 'cp', or you can go grab a copy of the GNU cpio utility and use it.

JP

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

You aare exceeding the limit in cpio and tar (2 gig), can you gzip the file and them cpio it?

Why not use cp to shift these files?

Paula

[Michelle Daalman_1]

Thanks.

It's a 25 GB Filesystem. I will just make a backup instead and restore it I suppose.