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Have you checked the filesystem on the other linux-maschine?
If you want to use files > 2GB, you might perhaps change the attribute of
the file system:
syntax similiar to (SOLARIS): fsadm -o largefiles <filesystem>.
mfg
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"Knappke, Christian" wrote:
> > I created a full-backup of my sapdb(running on linux). This file
> > is > 2 GB. For better handling I compressed this backup with gzip.
> > The result is a .gz -file with 980MB.
> >
> > Now I want to decompress the file on another linux machine, but
> > gzip tells me "file too large" :-(
> >
> > After "googling" about this message I installed the gzip Version 1.3.3
> > from gzip.org, but the problem is still the same.
> >
> > So,
> > 1.) can somebody tell me, how to decompress my backup or
> > 2.) is it possible to split the backup in some way ??
>
> Maybe you can restore from a pipe. To get the data into the pipe use
>
> gzip --decompress --stdout <gzipped file> > <pipename>
>
> Otherwise you can split the uncompressed data:
>
> gzip --decompress --stdout <gzipped file> | split --bytes=2047m
>
> This will generate files xaa, xab ... with a size of 2047 MB.
>
> To pipe these into whatever use:
>
> cat xaa xab > <pipename>
>
> HTH
> Christian
>
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