From: selcuk karaca (selcuk.karaca@aski.gov.tr)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 02:59:44 EST
Hello admins...
Only anser came from Rich Copeland and He says,
tar with E option can be used in such cases..It is true..
I have tested pax -x xtar option in a win 2K machine (there is a pax tool
there..) and sun OS 5.7 .. result is successfull
So I will continue with pax ..
TIA..
Question was;
> Hello All...
>
> My system:
> Alpha ES40
> Tru64Unix v5.1 PK4
>
> My problem is ;
>
> I need to backup a 33 GB single file (an oracle logical backup (export)
> file )..
> Now I am using vdump without problems, but I want to use generic backup
> tools..
>
> Pax seems to be a good solution.. But with the default switches, it does
not
> backup files over 8 GB..
> But when I use with
>
> pax -w -x xtar -f /dev/tape/tape0c .
>
> it has worked !
>
> Now I am trying to find whether -x xtar option is platform independent or
> not..?
> Anyone with other unix derivatives (SUN -HP) can check if it has such an
> option for me ..?
> Or better I can prepare a backup packged with xtar option, and someone can
> try to restore it ..!
>
>
> Any other pax experience very appreciated..
>
> TIA..
>
> selcuk karaca
> UNIX System Administrator
> Turkiye...
>
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