tar to support more than 2 GB

[Balaji N]

Does tar support data of more than 2 GB.
If not are there any work arounds?

Thanks for ur time.
Regards
Balaji

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Tar have 2 gig limit:-

gzip the big file first see man gzip.


Paula

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
No, tar does not work with files larger than 1.99 GB.
As a workaround try fbackup/frestore in command line mode. From SAM it does not work with these large files.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Animesh Chakraborty]

The Answere is NO.

tar, cpio, pax, ftio information is published in the largefiles white
paper but it not readily known that this is where the answer lies.

According to /usr/share/doc/lg_files.txt:
"4.2.1 tar, cpio, pax, ftio

Some of the backup commands, specifically tar, cpio, pax (tar & cpio
formats), and ftio (because it creates cpio format archives) are
restricted from supporting large files due to standards defined
headers in the archives. Although the headers allow archival of files
upto 8GB, there is no guarantee that there will be no attempt to
restore these files on a system that does not support large
files. These commands will therefore support files up to 2GB
only. Attempts to archive any files >2GB will fail, and the files will
not be added to the archive."

The fbackup command does support largefiles as well as the GNU backup
utils like GNUtar. GNUtar can be found at:
http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.18

Regards
Animesh

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,
tar does not support files larger than 2Gb. You should use fbackup or ar.
Regards

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The limitations of support by 'tar', 'cpio' and 'pax' are well documented in their respective man pages:

"Because of industry standards and interoperability goals, [pax|tar|cpio] does not support the archival of files larger than 2GB or files that have user/group IDs greater than 60K. Files with user/group IDs greater than 60K are archived and restored under the user/group ID of the current process."

If you are dealing solely with HP servers, I'd use 'fbackup/frecover' to support >2GB handling.

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

No. That is a 'feature' of the HP supplied tar. You can download GNU's tar if you truly need tar formats larger than 2GB to transfer to other platformsd. If you simply need to transfer with the HP world, then use fbackup/frestore.

[harry d brown jr]

If you really want tar, especially for files greater than 2gb, then download gnu's tar:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.22/

Although it will only be portable to other sites with GNU's tar, fbackup and frecover only work with hpux.


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hbrown

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Balaji,

tar does not support more than 2GB. Here is a link for more reading.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/B2355-90742_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/00/00/51-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/00/00/51-toc.html&searchterms=tar%20limit&queryid=20011029-060712

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=fe4f8eba01c861b856/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000057034500

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=fe4f8eba01c861b856/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000023740191

Hope this helps.

thanks

[Victor_5]

tar does not support over 2G, try to use fbackup/frecover instead.

Shawn

[Roger Baptiste]

Tar is limited to 2GB. One workaround
to that is to run a compress on the file
and then tar it; or if your intention is
to tar a whole directory, then run
compressdir on the directory and then
do a tar. Ofcourse, this is assuming that
after compress the data falls within the
2Gb limit.

HTH. Also, how about assigning points ?

-Raj