From: JATHAR.PRAVIN@mahindra.com
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 23:23:40 EST
Thanks for all guru's who has given reply.
Allan.Marillier,Bill Hassell,Brian Brocklesby,Harm Ensing,HAUTECOEUR
Bruno,Jeff Cleverley,Jose Gomes,Mike.Keighley,rajdeep,Rogerio Coelho,STOKER,
KARISSA M (SBCSI),Talavera, Jesus
You can't use tar or cpio due this 2Go limitation. You have to use
fbackup/frecover which doesn't have such a limit.
rgds
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De : JATHAR.PRAVIN@mahindra.com [mailto:JATHAR.PRAVIN@mahindra.com]
Envoyé : mercredi 29 janvier 2003 12:16
À : hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
Objet : [HPADM] RE: How to take backup of more than 2GB file
Dear GURU,
No reply yet. No body is facing this problem
Pravin
hi!
Many backup tools as tar, cpio can not backup files greater than
2Gb. If you are
running HP-UX, try with fbackup or pax. I think in the man pages for tar or
cpio talks about
this problem.
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Hi ,
I have as solution to this.. which U can consider..
Fist install GNU latest tar...which can handle file of more than 2gb size..
then do:
tar cvzf /dev/rmt/tps2d3nr <filename>
Pls. remember that you take GNU tar not the HP tar
-Rajdeep
You can use fbackup, pax or gtar (gtar must be compiled for large files
support) all for free, or buy something like HP OmniBack or Veritas
Netbackup.
cpio (and tar and pax, etc) cannot save ANY file larger
than 2Gb. These classic tar utilities are 2 decades old
were never designed to handle files larger than 2Gb. This
is covered in the white paper about lasrge files located
in /usr/share/doc.
cpio (and tar and pax...) should be limited to small files
for exchange between systems. Anything larger than 2Gb will
require special software on BOTH machines. For HP-UX systems,
fbackup/frecover work just fine for multi-GB files and is the
best choice as a free backup facility for HP-UX. However, this
program pair is not available for other OS's. In that case,
you should look at free programs like (certain versions of)
GNU tar, or better yet, get a professional backup program
such as HiComp (one of the easiest to use and fastest), or
HP's OmniBack. Usually, large files are very important and
using archaic tools is not a good way to operate in a production
environment. None of the classic Unix utilities can handle
any errors on the tape and have no high speed search to
recover a single file.
I'll venture that you need to specify the command
as "cpio -ovK -C 20000000" based on the result you
show below, but I am not familiar with the options
you are using and do not have a man page corresponding
to the options shown below in your "usage" output.
Regards,
Brian Brocklesby
Hello Pravin,
I missed your initial question.
I have made an enhancement to GNU cpio that allows me to make backup of file
with sizes up to 128 TB. If you are still interested let me know. I might be
able to send you a copy.
HTH,
You can't use tar or cpio due this 2Go limitation. You have to use
fbackup/frecover which doesn't have such a limit.
We have had this problem here at work with both HP-UX and AIX. If you have a
quick look at the man page for tar and cpio, you will notice that neither
will deal with files >2GB.
The options are to use fbackup, or if you prefer, do what I did - download
and compile the GNU version of tar or cpio.
Hope this helps.
To the best of my knowledge, cpio and tar do not, never have, and never
will support "largefiles".
Use fbackup instead.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JATHAR PRAVIN
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 4:46 PM
> To: 'hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl'
> Subject: RE: How to take backup of more than 2GB file
>
> Dear GURU,
>
> No reply yet. No body is facing this problem
>
> Pravin
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JATHAR PRAVIN
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 10:27 AM
> To: 'hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl'
> Subject: How to take backup of more than 2GB file
> Importance: High
>
> Dear All Guru,
>
> We are having more than 2GB file. I want to take a backup, but it is
> giving following error.
> See below I have used command. I will summaries the same.
>
>
> mrnd80 126# find . -name "comparison*" -print | cpio -ocvK20000000 >
> /dev/rmt/tps2d3nr
> Illegal option -- 2
> Illegal option -- 0
> Illegal option -- 0
> Illegal option -- 0
> Illegal option -- 0
> Illegal option -- 0
> Illegal option -- 0
> Illegal option -- 0
> -K used only in binary mode.
>
> Usage:
> cpio -i[bcdfkmrstuvBSVT6] [-C size][-E file] [-H hdr] [[-I
> file] [-M msg]] [-R id] [patterns]
> cpio -o[acvABKLVW] [-C size] [-H hdr] [[-M msg] [-O file]]
> cpio -p[adlmuvLV] [-R id] directory
> mmrnd80 127#
> mmrnd80 127# find . -name "comparison*" -print | cpio -ocvKC20000000
> > /dev/rmt/tps2d3nr
> -K used only in binary mode.
> Usage:
> cpio -i[bcdfkmrstuvBSVT6] [-C size][-E file] [-H hdr] [[-I
> file] [-M msg]] [-R id] [patterns]
> cpio -o[acvABKLVW] [-C size] [-H hdr] [[-M msg] [-O file]]
> cpio -p[adlmuvLV] [-R id] directory
> mmrnd80 128# find . -name "comparison*" -print | cpio -ocvKC20000000
> -H > /dev/rmt/tps2d3nr
> Option requires an argument -- H
> -K used only in binary mode.
> Usage:
> cpio -i[bcdfkmrstuvBSVT6] [-C size][-E file] [-H hdr] [[-I
> file] [-M msg]] [-R id] [patterns]
> cpio -o[acvABKLVW] [-C size] [-H hdr] [[-M msg] [-O file]]
> cpio -p[adlmuvLV] [-R id] directory
>
> mmrnd80 129# find . -name "comparison*" -print | cpio -ocvK >
> /dev/rmt/tps2d3nr
> -K used only in binary mode.
> Usage:
> cpio -i[bcdfkmrstuvBSVT6] [-C size][-E file] [-H hdr] [[-I
> file] [-M msg]] [-R id] [patterns]
> cpio -o[acvABKLVW] [-C size] [-H hdr] [[-M msg] [-O file]]
> cpio -p[adlmuvLV] [-R id] directory
> mmrnd80 130# find . -name "comparison*" -print | cpio -ocv >
> /dev/rmt/tps2d3nr
> comparison.vcp
> Skipping file -> comparison.mf1
> Must use -K option to archive this file
> comparison.mf2
> comparison.lis
> 8192 blocks
>
>
> Regards,
> Pravin jathar
> System Administrator
>
>
>
>
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