tar binary for hpux 11.23 64bit PARISC

[Ewa Bobi?ska]

Anyone have a compiled version of "tar" for hpux 11.23 in 64 bit mode for PA-Risc they could send me.

Thanks in Advance...

-- Rod Hills

[Alex Lavrov.]

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.15/

Alex.

[Steven E. Protter]

There is a perfectly good version of tar built into the 11.23 OS.

By now it should also be able to make tar files between 2-8 GB. If there has been an update, please check the itrc patch database.

There is no need to compile anything.

SEP

[Rajesh SB]

Hi,

PS: GNU tar is not posix compaint, take care of dependencies, if any while using.

Regards,
Rajesh

[Andrei Lica_1]

native hp-ux tar is unusable in real life - production. Performance low, limited to 8GB max file size ( posix compliant...) and other stupid limitations - read man tar.
GNU tar is better but as far as I remember the precompiled HP version is limited to 2GB ( not sure )
But try a real fast tar ( also compliant with all tar implementations ) : star. Do a search on www.gnu.org site. Is twice as fast as HP-UX native tar
Andrei

[Dietmar Konermann]

Andrei,

> posix compliant... and other stupid limitations

Hmm, I guess most people tend to disagree *a little bit*. :-)

POSIX compliance is key for using tar. If someone is after high performance and maybe proprietary enterprise solutions, then tar is not right choice, imho.

[Andrei Lica_1]

I agree stardards are good but I don't see any use in writting backup utilities that cannot handle large files or cannot backup file with file paths 256chars or more, etc
There's no decent native backup tool in HP-UX , even a proprietary tool. cpio not good, fbackup not good, etc
star and gnu tar are backward compatible and fast. Why hp tar isn't ?
I think HP is hidding the fact that tar and other traditional unix utilities remained unchanged for years
Also you can buy backup software and not use tar...