limit on tarring to tape?

From: Mark Lamport (lamport@KCMETRO.CC.MO.US)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 14:46:56 EDT


I there a file size limit on tarring to tape? I have a 8gig file that tar is giving me an error on but the user(root) has no limits on file size. I have large file enabled. here's some data;

# cat cold_tar_HESYS.log
 began Sun Aug 25 12:51:31 CDT 2002
tar: 0511-825 The file '/u07/oradata/HESYS/psindex01.dbf' is too large.
# ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) unlimited
stack(kbytes) unlimited
memory(kbytes) 32768
coredump(blocks) unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) 2000
# ls -all /u07/oradata/HESYS/
total 17377808
drwxr-sr-x 2 oracle dba 512 Aug 24 16:33 .
drwxr-sr-x 4 oracle dba 512 May 18 16:26 ..
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 8687460352 Aug 25 12:50 psindex01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 209723392 Aug 25 12:50 system01.dbf
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