Re: limit on tarring to tape?

From: Jerry Gelaude (ggelaude@WILLINET.NET)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 21:55:12 EDT

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Hi Mark,

Download a copy of GNU 'tar'. There is a 2GB limit on the standard
tar utiity.

You can get the pre-compiled binaries for all versions of AIX 4 and
AIX 5.1 from the following site.

http://www.bullfreeware.com/

Regards,
Jerry Gelaude

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 13:46:56 -0500, you wrote:

>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;
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>
>
># 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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