cpio for files larger than 4GB

[TJ_22]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone new of a way to backup files larger than 4GB on Linux EN 3.0.

I curently have cpio-2.5-4.RHEL3 installed.

Thanks,

T.J.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

I think you are at the maximum.

See http://www.gnu.org for something bigger capacity.

I can do files up to 8 GB in HP-UX with a patch. Just in case there is an option.

SEP

[Stuart Browne]

I've been able to create 8.5GB Bzipped CPIO archives with no issue.

This is on an FC4 box however, using cpio-2.6-9.FC4.

What you could try is grabbing the source RPM, and re-making it on your RHE3 box (rpmbuild --rebuild cpio-2.6-9.FC4.src.rpm).

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

You can use `-H odc' command line option on cpio - that being the ability to archive input files up to 8 Gb.

Regards