{"id":443,"date":"2010-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2010\/05\/17\/upgrade-export-on-solaris-fails-with-qerror-failed-to-execute-gtar-c-cq\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T13:02:43","slug":"upgrade-export-on-solaris-fails-with-qerror-failed-to-execute-gtar-c-cq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Solaris\/upgrade-export-on-solaris-fails-with-qerror-failed-to-execute-gtar-c-cq.html","title":{"rendered":"Solaris Upgrade Export &#8220;Error: Failed to execute &#8216;gtar -c -C&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When running an upgrade_export on a Solaris Smart Centre you may receive the following error :<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Compressing the files&#8230; gtar: Only wrote 2047 of 10240 bytes to export.tgz.tar gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now <\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Error: Failed to execute &#8216;gtar -c -C &#8220;\/opt\/CPsuite-R65\/fw1\/tmp\/upgrade_temp_dir&#8221; -f &#8220;export.tgz.tar&#8221; .&#8217; command [ 26409\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1]@#######[10 May 15:35:27] Compress: <\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Error &gt;&gt; Failed to run gtar -c -C &#8220;\/opt\/CPsuite-R65\/fw1\/tmp\/upgrade_temp_dir&#8221; -f &#8220;export.tgz.tar&#8221; . command <\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Error: Failed to compress Check Point Software files<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is down to a 2Gb limitation of the gtar command. 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