SUMMARY: file size for tar: what's the limit and workaround?

From: Cohen, Andy (Andy.Cohen@cognex.com)
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 16:37:55 EST

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SUMMARY
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I realized soon after I sent the original email that I hadn't tried
vdump|vrestore yet. I tried it and it worked just fine.

Suggestions I received were to try:

Pax ...
tar -E ...

Since I got it to work with vdump|vrestore I didn't try either of these.
I've also had somebody say they think vdump is faster than tar anyway.

Thanks a lot!
Andy

ORIGINAL QUESTION
=================
Hello managers!
 
In trying to copy files from one machine to another using tar (both
machines run Tru64 5.1A PK6):
 
        tar -cf - . | rsh remote_server 'cd /disk/path/subdir/ && tar
-xvBsf -'

I got the following error:

        tar: ./hot_back_d3/psindex.dbf : File too large for archive
format, truncating to 8589934591 bytes

I read the man page and searched the web and can't find any reference to
what the largest size is for a file to be included in a tar.

Does anybody have a workaround? How about gtar -- has anybody used that
with large files? Any other ideas?

Thank you!
Andy

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