tar: File too large

From: Per Klitgaard Madsen <PKM_at_dmt.sonofon.dk>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:23:55 +0200

Hi,

Hope this is not too trivial (the archive search engine seems to be down).

When trying to do a tar of a file of around 8Gb or more, we get the error:

tar: 'the file' : File too large for archive format, truncating to
8589934591 bytes

Is the the expected behaviour? If so, is there a workaround? We are in the
process of introducing networker backup on this particular machine, but in
the meanwhile we depend upon tar.


Regards,
Per.

Name: Per Klitgaard Madsen. Company: Sonofon, Skelagervej 1, DK-9000 Aalborg
Phone: +45 72127741. Fax: +45 72127989 e-mail: pkm_at_dmt.sonofon.dk
Received on Wed Jul 07 1999 - 12:24:44 NZST

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