gzip: stdout: File too large

Posted by Karthik on Jan 13, 2019; 7:58am
URL: http://erman-arslan-s-oracle-forum.124.s1.nabble.com/gzip-stdout-File-too-large-tp7079.html

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/