cudnja also dd to cross-machine pipe? probably another clue-free shot from hip.... -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:15 PM To: Michael.Kline@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Sftp for transport tablespace Michael, My guess is that you are on a 32 bit system, and the sftp utility cannot = handle any file greater than 2 gig. When you get to 2 gig, it is done. Same thing for cp, scp and something else I can't recall. Yes, been there done that. The method I used when trying to overcome the 2 gig limit to copy a file to another machine on the network ( my laptop in this case) was to use netcat. Netcat was started on my laptop listening on a port and redirecting = output to a file. Netcat was used on the linux box to send the file to that port on my = laptop. I don't recall the exact syntax, but it was fairly simple and easy to = figure out after a couple minutes with the man page. You may want to investigate setting up a TCP tunnel with ssh, and then = using netcat on top of it, as that would give you the security of sftp. Or not, I haven't actually tried that bit. :) On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:52:57 -0500, Kline.Michael = <Michael.Kline@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to use sftp for "security" reasons, but I've got some=20 > tablespaces that are quite large, and they are giving me some very=20 > strange errors. The old "bad" ftp routine handles these just=20 > perfectly. The disk being sent to is more than large enough, some=20 > 60GB. >=20 > Can't find much on google, but there's talk that if it's a 32-bit=20 > module it may not be able to handle files > 4gb. Still, these are only = > about 3GB. >=20 --=20 Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l