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I meant czvf

I am trying to write a very large file, 570 gb, to a tape using gtar like this :

gtar czxf /dev/rmt/1 ./*

I get a message:

off_t value 570635451556 too large (max=68719476735)

It is...

I'm doing that now. Does it do a better job of compressing than compress?

Oops, spoke too soon, ran out of space!!

I am trying:

compress file_name | tar cvfE /dev/rmt/1 - .

Seems to be working.

No, I am on SunOS 5.8

I have a large file, around 570 gb that I want to copy to tape. However, my tape drive will load only up to 500 gb. I don't have enough space on disk to compress it before copying to tape. Can I...