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Writing large files to tape

I have a zipped file that is ~ 10GB. I tried tarring it off to a tape, but I receive:
tar: <filename> too large to archive. Use E function modifier.

The file is stored on a UFS mount, so I was unable to use ufsdump.

What other options do I have? (I don't have a local file system large enough to move it to to use ufsdump)

Thanks for any ideas!
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Have you tried using dd or cpio? Else, try to get GNU tar. I believe that will handle largefiles, but am not too sure about files larger than 8GB.
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You could cat the file directly to tape, if you kept a record of exactly how long the file was for later.
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Hi Fred

Use tar -cvEf filename ..then it will work.

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