Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Writing large files to tape

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Writing large files to tape
# 1  
Old 05-17-2006
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!
# 2  
Old 05-17-2006
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.
# 3  
Old 05-17-2006
You could cat the file directly to tape, if you kept a record of exactly how long the file was for later.
# 4  
Old 01-22-2008
Hi Fred

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

Akshaya
 
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Solaris

files in tape

unix1{owadmin}% tar tvf /dev/rmt/1 -rw-rw-rw- 1021/10 0 Sep 11 17:54 2011 TinahPF_Far_32bit.segy tar: directory checksum error unix1{owadmin}% i know in this tape 3 files not only one file so what can i do to view 3 files and what is this error mean ( tar: directory checksum error... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ayman
2 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Start copying large file while its still being restored from tape

Hello, I need to copy a 700GB tape-image file over a network. I want to start the copy process before the tape-image has finished being restored from the tape. The tape restore speed is about 78 Mbps and the file transfer speed over the network is about 45 Mbps I don't want to use a pipe, since... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: swamik
7 Replies

3. Solaris

How to safely copy full filesystems with large files (10Gb files)

Hello everyone. Need some help copying a filesystem. The situation is this: I have an oracle DB mounted on /u01 and need to copy it to /u02. /u01 is 500 Gb and /u02 is 300 Gb. The size used on /u01 is 187 Gb. This is running on solaris 9 and both filesystems are UFS. I have tried to do it using:... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: dragonov7
14 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Divide large data files into smaller files

Hello everyone! I have 2 types of files in the following format: 1) *.fa >1234 ...some text... >2345 ...some text... >3456 ...some text... . . . . 2) *.info >1234 (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ad23
7 Replies

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Planning on writing a Guide to Working with Large Datasets

In a recent research experiment I was handling, I faced this task of managing huge amounts of data to the order of Terabytes and with the help of many people here, I managed to learn quite a lot of things in the whole process. I am sure that many people will keep facing these situations quite often... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Legend986
2 Replies

6. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Writing files from Unix to 3480 Tape

I am trying to learn what command I would need to enter to tell my very old tape writer to write a large > 210 MB file from a UNIX box to 3480 tapes. I can get a single tape to write < 210 MB but if the file is large I am not aware of what command to enter to tell it to split the input file across... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: james.hodge@eds
0 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Writing tar file to tape

Hi Guy`s I`m a newbie to Unix and I`m starting to love it I got stuck donig backups of tar files to tape I use this to find all tar files find . -name '*.tar.*' > output in output there would be n of file eg. 6 the size output is 156 but tar files are: 9.3M Jul 18 09:48... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: donovan
1 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

large files?

How do we check 'large files' is enabled on a Unix box -- HP-UX B11.11 (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ranj@chn
2 Replies

9. AIX

Writing in a tape drive

Hi all, I need to write on a tape drive with AIX5.3. How to know the name of this tape and what is the procedure to read and write on this tape? Regards, Tovo (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: tovohery
2 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Large files

I am trying to understand the webserver log file for an error which has occured on my live web site. The webserver access file is very big in size so it's not possible to open this file using vi editor. I know the approximate time the error occured, so i am interested in looking for the log file... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sehgalniraj
4 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question