AIX adheres to the "USTAR" standard. The 2GB limit was lifted with AIX 5.1, as shockneck pointed out. AIX 5.1 was out of software service 2005 or so - too long ago, in any case, to still use it in any conclusions. In fact, quoting from the tar man page for AIX 6.1:
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The ustar header format allows for file sizes to be as large as 8 GB. Therefore, the tar command is enabled to archive files of up to 8 GB in size.
Further, you can easily work around some limitations by using <stdin>/<stdout> as input/output destinations:
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Originally Posted by filosophizer
Move the native binary tar command:
IMHO this is not a good way to do it. You change the OS by doing so and that is most probably not what you want. First, you will run into troubles when you update or apply corrective services, because the install routines of these procedures will expect "tar" (the executable, not some spurious link) to be found at "/usr/bin/tar", not at "/usr/bin/tar_". Second, you mislead tools which may rely on a certain behavior of the command they are using. These tools may or may not fail simply because they expect behavior X but experience behavior Y instead.
You may install any tar replacement either in a different location (/opt/gnutar-version/bin/tar if you think of it as an application, /usr/local/bin/tar if you think it is an additional administrative tool) and set your PATH accordingly (just put the part where GNU-tar resides in front of /usr/bin) or you can install GNU-tar under a different name ("gtar" for instance) and define an alias for your scripts and/or shells. But you should NEVER, NEVER EVER replace system commands with home-brewn concoctions.
I'm trying to set up a stanard sh script that will find all the files that have been changed within the last day and then tar them up.
I think the command line should be something like :
find /home/bob -atime +0 -exec \ tar cvf /home/bob/files.tar {}\;
Help please ...
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# grep "Jul 3" syslog.messages | more
Jul 3 00:16:03 www3 CPU3: NOTICE: HTFS: No space on dev hd (1/42)
Jul 3 00:16:08 www3 CPU3: NOTICE: HTFS: No space on dev hd (1/42)
Jul 3 00:17:01 www3 CPU2: NOTICE: HTFS: No space on dev hd (1/42)
Jul 3 00:17:06 www3 syslogd: /usr/adm/debug: No space... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am creating a disaster recovery plan for my Linux 7.2 machine. I have two backups from my current machine.
One created using the command
tar -cvpf /dev/st0 --exclude=/proc --directory / .
and one created with the command
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Hi,
I've got dozens of tar's with two files in each one,
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Hi all,
I would like to know what would happen if the tape (media) is not placed on the drive and a tar command is executed to backup on the tape.
My problem is that tar command hanged for multiple days instead of throwing the error,
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Hello,
Getting this very strange error, made tar/zip through gnu tar
GNU Tar ( successful tar and zip without any errors )
/opt/freeware/bin/tar cvf - /oraapp| gzip > /backup/bkp_15_6_16_oraapp.tgz
GNU unTar error
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