Re: cpio terminating with write error
- From: Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:06:02 -0600 (CST)
In article <3967004a-78e9-4b4d-9703-b1a25104e511@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
venu <venugolden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:I use a REDHAT LINUX 9.0 system. I have a scheduled backup of my data
:to a second hard disk.I recently noticed that the last few backups
:showed the same size 2147483647. I was surprised hence tried the
:backup cpio command . I found that it was terminating with a message
:cpio write error.The disk has plenty of space. Is there an upper limit
:to the output file size? My command was as follows which was working
:fine for smaller sizes.
:find . | cpio --format=newc -o -O/mnt/unix/bkup.cpio.date
RH 9.0 is pretty old now, and parts, if not all, of the software were
obviously compiled without large file support, leaving you with the
limit of 2GB-1 that you are seeing.
--
Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"
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