I'm using cpio to backup an Oracle applications base directory. The final archive file is 26GB. When I try to restore the file on another server I get cpio: File too large. Interesting enough, if I execute cpio on the destination box, referring to the original file on the remote box, it works: cpio -ivdmF user@host:/dir/file

Here's what I'm doing:
find . -print | cpio -oH crc > orahome$BKDATE.cpio

Then I secure copy archive to remote host

The following doesn't work:
cpio -ivdmF filename
cpio -idvmI filename
cpio: ../orahome2004-05-17.cpio: File too large

cpio -idvm < filename
cpio: standard input is closed: Value too large for defined data type


The following works:
cpio -idvmI user@host:/dir/filename
cpio -idvmF user@host:/dir/filename

Any thoughts? What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance

offen times in linux, it will say a file is too large, this may not be the case, the case is really that their are too many files in that directory, try moving the file to another directory, if this still doesnt work, its possible there are too many files on the partition, then i forget how to fix it :-D

If you are using ext2/3 and you created the filesystem with 1k blocks then the file may be too large. You want 4k block size to get large files, and check the -T option as well when creating the filesystem... man mke2fs