tar: 0511-825 The file is too large.

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Today I had to tar a directory but I got the following error:

root@gzaix:/ora #tar cvf system.tar system
a system
a system/PRODU
a system/PRODU/afiedt.buf 3 blocks.
a system/PRODU/control01.ctl 17952 blocks.
a system/PRODU/lost+found
a system/PRODU/sysaux01.dbf 4730896 blocks.
a system/PRODU/system01.dbf 1413136 blocks.
[color=red]tar: 0511-825 The file 'system/PRODU/temp01.dbf' is too large.
tar: 0511-825 The file 'system/PRODU/undotbs01.dbf' is too large.[/color]

It turns out that AIX tar has a 2 GB limit to the file size. You will have to install and use tar from the Linux Toolbox:
IBM AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications

Download the RPM, put it to your box and install it:

root@gzaix:/tmp #rpm -Uvh tar-1.14-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
tar                         ##################################################
root@gzaix:/tmp #rpm -ql tar-1.14-2       
/opt/freeware/bin/tar
/opt/freeware/info/tar.info.gz
/opt/freeware/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/opt/freeware/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/bin/gtar
/usr/linux/bin/gtar
/usr/linux/bin/tar

Now you just run gtar instead of tar and everything should be ok:

root@gzaix:/ora #gtar cvf system.tar system
system/
system/PRODU/
system/PRODU/afiedt.buf
system/PRODU/control01.ctl
system/PRODU/lost+found/
system/PRODU/sysaux01.dbf
system/PRODU/system01.dbf
system/PRODU/temp01.dbf
system/PRODU/undotbs01.dbf

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If you want to use this information on your own website, please remember: by doing copy/paste entirely it is always stealing and you should be ashamed of yourself! Have at least the decency to create your own text and comments and run the commands on your own servers and provide your output, not what I did!

Or at least link back to this website.

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