file size limit question

[Nagarjuna Rao Cherukuri]

Hi all,



I am trying to take zip backup of a directory. But, the zip command
fails once the output file reaches 2G. I am on RHEL AS 3.



Can anybody throw some light on this?



$ zip -r crp1data.zip crp1data

  adding: crp1data/ (stored 0%)

  adding: crp1data/a_media01.dbf (deflated 91%)

  adding: crp1data/a_ref01.dbf (deflated 91%)

  adding: crp1data/a_queue02.dbf (deflated 100%)

  adding: crp1data/system11.dbf (deflated 87%)

  adding: crp1data/a_ref02.dbf (deflated 87%)

  adding: crp1data/ctxd01.dbf (deflated 92%)

  adding: crp1data/a_queue01.dbf (deflated 100%)

  adding: crp1data/owad01.dbf (deflated 100%)

  adding: crp1data/a_summ01.dbf (deflated 99%)

  adding: crp1data/system07.dbf (deflated 74%)

  adding: crp1data/system05.dbf (deflated 80%)

  adding: crp1data/system10.dbf (deflated 91%)

  adding: crp1data/system08.dbf (deflated 74%)

  adding: crp1data/system06.dbf (deflated 72%)

  adding: crp1data/log02a.dbf (deflated 77%)

  adding: crp1data/odm.dbf (deflated 99%)

  adding: crp1data/log01a.dbf (deflated 77%)

  adding: crp1data/system04.dbf (deflated 76%)

  adding: crp1data/a_archive01.dbf (deflated 99%)

  adding: crp1data/system03.dbf (deflated 76%)

  adding: crp1data/a_int01.dbf (deflated 97%)

  adding: crp1data/system02.dbfFile size limit exceeded

[oracrp1 at kohinoor] /BACKUP/crp1old10aug05

$ ls -lh

total 3.6G

drwxr-xr-x  214 oracrp1  dba          4.0K Aug  4 16:11 crp1appl

drwxr-xr-x   11 oracrp1  dba          4.0K Aug  4 15:41 crp1comn

drwxr-xr-x    2 oracrp1  dba          4.0K Aug 11 10:59 crp1data

drwxr-xr-x    3 oracrp1  dba          4.0K Aug  4 13:01 crp1db

-rw-r--r--    1 oracrp1  dba          1.5G Aug 18 20:45 crp1db.zip

drwxr-xr-x    4 oracrp1  dba          4.0K Aug  4 13:17 crp1ora

-rw-r--r--    1 oracrp1  dba          2.0G Aug 18 21:09 ziP10FvR

[oracrp1 at kohinoor] /BACKUP/crp1old10aug05

$ df -h .

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/cciss/c0d2p1     241G  204G   25G  90% /BACKUP

[oracrp1 at kohinoor] /BACKUP/crp1old10aug05



thanks

Nagarjuna

P.S. I already posted the same qn before without details. I could not
locate the old mail now. So, posting my doubt as new query again.



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