hi all

last three year we are taking a backup on tape using the
tar command in hp unix 11.0

but now my backup file size more than 2GB and tar command not support more than 2 gb file size.

i try fbackup command but it is not working for single file.

please some one provide the soulation to take a backup more the 2gb single file with in hp unix11.0 syntax

thanks
Sanjeev

Didn't know is it work for file more than 2GB. In our system, we do backup single file by using the "-g graph" option of fbackup command.

Example of graph file:

i /.profile
i /.brand/.brand6.1
......


Hope this can help

Hi Sanjeev,

some years ago I worked for HP as an employee and I actually spoke to someone, who was officially maintaining the source code for the tar implementation within HP-Ux. He said, that the 2 GB limit was programmed on purpose into the tar code for compatibility reasons!!!!

Anyway there is a simple solution: User the GNU version gtar. You can find it precompiled and as a SW install package on the porting archives for HP-Ux and it has no such limit.

Also I think cpio has also no such limit, but I am not so sure about that.

Regards

Markus

thanks markus my problem is slove.