How to take a backup in rhel 4 of above 2GB

[Jestin John Chacko]

Dear,

I want to take a backup of above 2GB files to my tape drive using tar.is it possible by the normal tar version (tar 1.14) or whether i have to install some rpm's for that.if so please mention it

I am using rhel 4.4

Please help me in this issue.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

tar for rhel 4.4 supports tar files of at least 8 GB, without any change or additional software installation.

SEP

[Steven Schweda]

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

The NEWS file for GNU "tar" 1.14 is still
easily available:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/tar/tar/NEWS?view=markup&content-type=text%2Fvnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=1.83

and it mentions "archive members 8 GB or
larger" in an entry related to version
1.13.12. So, I'd be a little amazed if
version 1.14 had a 2GB limit (or an 8GB
limit).

However, if this backup is actually important
for some reason, then it would make some
sense to run the experiment, and see if those
claims amount to anything.

And, of course, newer versions of GNU "tar"
are available. (But again, if you really
want to know if it works, it usually makes
more sense to try it than it does to ask.)

[dirk dierickx]

Using GNU-tar there is no 2GB limit, has been like this for years, can't even remember the time when (if it ever) had this limit. but reading the NEWS file referenced above, it has been implemented since 1999.