[gnuwin32 - Help] tar: large files: off_t value too large

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By: josseevans

I'm using gnu tar v 1.13 on win2003 to tar a remote directory to a remote location
(both CIFS, both windows 2003 machines).

This generally works great and quickly, even with large directories (200+GB).
However, I have one case where tar fails with the message: "C:\Program
Files\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe: off_t value 72840418836 too large
(max=68719476735)".

This value is exactly the number of bytes of a large file in this archive
(67.8GB).
It appears that using tar v 1.16 on a linux (debian stable) machine will create
the tarfile without problems (altough 7zip on windows will not read it again).
Is it possible there is a file size limitation in the old tar version?


Would someone be willing to provide a newer binary? I'd really appreciate it.

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