I need to transfer a large oracle file between 2 Solaris 7 systems the file is 12+ gig in a tar.Z format. When I try to scp the file it returns this message
Value too large for defined data type
The same comand let me move a 2.6 gig file with no problem. Is there any thing I need to add for such a large file?
Thanks
Scotty
Hi,
you have other options besides scp: rsync and tar.
a) rsync:
rsync -avz -e ssh local.file your_name@remote.server:/remote/directory/where/data/goes
/remote/directory/where/data/goes should exist, IIRC. Leave away z (compression) if you feel it puts too much load. Instead of local.file you can also specify a whole directory, so you might not need to tar.
b) tar
tar cvf - file_or_dir_to_transfer | ssh -l remote.server "cd /remote/dir/where/data/goes; tar xvf -"
You could put the output of tar also through gzip -c and through gzip -dc, it you want compression:
tar ... | gzip -c | ssh .... " cd ...; gzip -dc | tar xvf -"
Cheers, Peter.
