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Here is an interesting link for large files<br />
<a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-big-a-tar-file-that-linux-can-handle.html" rel="ugc">http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-big-a-tar-file-that-linux-can-handle.html</a>
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Here is an interesting link for large files
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-big-a-tar-file-that-linux-can-handle.html [http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-big-a-tar-file-that-linux-can-handle.html]

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<a href="http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/tar-lt-filename-gt-gt-2GB-Not-dumped/td-p/4952418" rel="ugc nofollow">http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/tar-lt-filename-gt-gt-2GB-Not-dumped/td-p/4952418</a><br />
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From the above link<br />
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The 2Gb limit is for industry standard, while the patch allows pax to handle up to 8Gb (similar to a tar patch). Files larger than 8Gb must use fbackup or a commercial backup program<br />
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http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/tar-lt-filename-gt-gt-2GB-Not-dumped/td-p/4952418 [http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/tar-lt-filename-gt-gt-2GB-Not-dumped/td-p/4952418]

From the above link

The 2Gb limit is for industry standard, while the patch allows pax to handle up to 8Gb (similar to a tar patch). Files larger than 8Gb must use fbackup or a commercial backup program



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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26240035/HP-UNIX-compressing-zipping-files-that-are-31GB.html?sfQueryTermInfo=1+10+30+dump+hp+tar+unix" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26240035/HP-UNIX-compressing-zipping-files-that-are-31GB.html?sfQueryTermInfo=1+10+30+dump+hp+tar+unix</a>
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https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26240035/HP-UNIX-compressing-zipping-files-that-are-31GB.html?sfQueryTermInfo=1+10+30+dump+hp+tar+unix [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26240035/HP-UNIX-compressing-zipping-files-that-are-31GB.html?sfQueryTermInfo=1+10+30+dump+hp+tar+unix]

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I am using tar to back up some files. A few of these files are bigger than 8GB. I am getting this error when I tar them:<br />
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tar: Size of /my/myconv/myconv_tabmsf.d<wbr />bf &gt;&nbsp;8GB. &nbsp;Not dumped.<br />
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how to get these big files included in the tar ?
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I am using tar to back up some files. A few of these files are bigger than 8GB. I am getting this error when I tar them:

tar: Size of /my/myconv/myconv_tabmsf.dbf > 8GB.  Not dumped.

how to get these big files included in the tar ?

tar command fails on files larger than 8GB

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