Error in Rsync.. Value too large

Nitin Agarwal nitin.agarwal at timesgroup.com
Fri Jun 28 04:13:01 EST 2002


Hi David,
We are not operating on Windows... we are using rsync on AIX 4.3. We are
able to transfer the files which are less then 30 GB successfully.

Thanks
Nitin Agarwal

David Starks-Browning wrote:

> On Friday 28 Jun 02, Nitin Agarwal writes:
> > Hi...
> >
> > I am encountering the following error while syncing the data....
> >
> > error message is: "send_files failed to open
> > abcdata1/PABCBTABD.container000 : Value too large to be stored in data
> > type"
> >
> > Size of the files for which the error is coming are: 31 GB, 35 GB, 40
> > GB, 52 GB, and 59 GB each.
>
> You aren't dealing with these large files on Windows, are you?  Cygwin
> does not support large files (>2GB?).
>
> David





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