From: Tru64 User (tru64user@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 11:04:21 EDT
Thanks for all the quick replies. I will work with the
various options i received.
Split the files with
$ > split -b <size> ...
For explanation: see split(1)
Concatenate the files at the destination simply with
cat(1)
cat file1 filen > tarfile
Hope, the destination OSes have ability to handle 20GB
... ;-)
Probably means that the system only supports 32 bit
file sizes (file sizes are typically signed integers,
and a 32 bit signed int overflows at 2.1G).
You have several options : untar the file and
re-package into smaller files.
Use split. The results are then cat'd back together.
Use zip to compress the tar file and zipsplit to break
it into smaller zip files.
--- Tru64 User <tru64user@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Question: How can i strip down a 20GB tar file into,
> say 10 smaller files? (tar file contains thousands
> of
> smaller files). I think i read somewhere that this
> were possible, and one could concatenate them at
> destination, but i can't find that reference
> anywhere
> now that i need it!!
>
> Background::
> I have a scenario that i have to move about 20GB of
> data residing on a tru64 server and send somewhere
> else where the environment is purely MacOS (OSX,
> Linux
> Based).
>
> They dont have tape drives, so that option is out.
>
> They ended up sending us a firewire/USB drive, for
> us
> to load the data (from our OS9 Cube)
> Problem occurs that the Mac, using Fetch/FTP, dies
> at
> the 2.1GB mark, wont go any further. Dies with
> "error
> number -1309", which i cant find a reference
> anywhere.
>
> _Thanks in advance
>
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