Have you enabled the largefiles flag on your file-system?
it is something like:
fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles
Not sure if that is exact!
Ronny Ivarsen
ivarsen_at_online.no
Joost Mulders <mail_at_j-mulders.demon.nl> wrote in message
news:37473793.A5B28126_at_j-mulders.demon.nl...
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a unix shellscript to do a cold backup of a midsize
> database (+/- 8G). I wanted to use cpio for archiving datafiles on a
> tape. When I do so, cpio wines that the archive is bigger as 2G and
> stops.
>
> How -in what 'format'- do you store large files on a tape ? Is my cpio
> old ?
>
> TIA
>
> Joost Mulders.
Received on Fri May 28 1999 - 19:01:32 CDT
