gzip: stdout: File too large

[Karthik]

Hi Erman,

Im taking backup of ebs files using tar command. Issue is once the tar file size reaches 2gb size it stops and failes with the below error. Please provide me workaround/fix for this issue.
OS version is Oracle Linux 6.5 64bit

$ tar cvzfP /nfs_backup/12cHome_190113.tar.gz /u01/install/PROD/db/tech_st/12

gzip: stdout: File too large
+ tar cvzfP /nfs_backup/Datafiles_190113.tar.gz /u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/log01a.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/a_txn_data04.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/a_ref03.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/undo01.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/cntrl03.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/sysaux05.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/a_txn_data06.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/a_txn_ind03.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/a_txn_ind04.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/sysaux03.dbf
/u01/install/PROD/db/apps_st/data/system02.dbf

gzip: stdout: File too large
+ ssh applmgr@eroton tar cvzfP /nfs_backup/Apps_190113.tar.gz /u02/install/APPS/apps
/u02/install/APPS/apps/
/u02/install/APPS/apps/tech_st/
/u02/install/APPS/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/
/u02/install/APPS/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/perl/

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

That error is from libc.
Basically, you exceeded the file size limit of your filesystem.
In your case the limit of your nfs_backup directory.
Try to increase the limit of your nfs_backup fs.. Or retry by splitting your tar.

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

Bytheway, this is not an EBS issue.
So I moved this issue into the Linux Category.