I'd put tail in the background instead of your tape restore. You can just create an empty file to make sure tail doesn't throw an error. ---------- Post updated at 10:22 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:19 AM ----------
The trouble comes from how to tell tail when it's finished. It's binary-safe I think, but only writes entire lines -- inconvenient when your file may not actually end in a newline. You may have to append a newline onto your local file to kick the last 'line' out of it: echo >> filename Then wait for the file sizes to be equal, kill tail, and truncate both files one byte shorter.
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In my organisation we have a solaris network with /home being automounted from /export/home on a central file server (usual stuff) however, the guy who originally set this up only allocated 3gb to /export/home and now we are really struggling for space. I have a new 18gb disk installed... (3 Replies)
Hi, Im trying to take a database backup. one of the files is 26 GB. I am using cp -pr to create a backup copy of the database. after the copying is complete, if i do du -hrs on the folders i saw a difference of 2GB.
The weird fact is that the BACKUP folder was 2 GB more than the original one!
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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... (3 Replies)
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I am trying to copy files present in a partition (server 2) which is mounted to a different server (server 1) as tape drive is connected to it. I ran the below command to copy files within a partition:
svr01:root:/sunfileserver> tar -cvf *
a <foldername>/<filename>/<filename>
a... (4 Replies)
We have 3 Unix servers all running SVR4 Unix 1.4. I have no problems copying files to and from 2 of the servers using either the rcp command or ftp but when i come to transfer large files to the third server the copy gives up part way through and crashes this server. Copying smaller files using RCP... (7 Replies)
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I have a process which duplicates files for different environments. As the files arrive, my script (korn shell) makes copies of them (giving a unique name) and then renames the original file so that my process won't get triggered again.
I don't like it either, but it's what we were told to... (4 Replies)
I have a large file that I append entries to the end of every few seconds. Its grown to >150MB. Its basically a log file but a perl script is writing to it. I need to make a copy of it to a new directory. I realize the latest entries occuring while the copy is taking place will not be recorded... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a big file which looks like this:
abc 34.32
cdf 343.45
computer 1.34
ladder 2.3422
I have some 100000 .TXT files which look like this:
computer
cdf
align
I have to open each of the text files and read the words from the text files. Then I have to look into that... (2 Replies)
I am using a 4mm tape to backup my Unix system. However, I wanted to make a copy all of the files and archive headers (or just the archive headers if that's possible) created on one of my tapes to another 4mm tape. I only have one tape drive. Is there a command that will complete such task? ... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm new to this forum and like to first of all say hello to everyone.
I've got a really annoying problem at the moment.
I'm trying to rsync some files (about 200MB with one file of 120MB) from a Raspberry PI with raspbian to a debian server via rsync.
This procedure is stored in a... (3 Replies)