Hi,
I have a 100GB folder. I tried to tar gzip it (tar cvzf folder.tar.gz folder) but I get the following error:
tar: cannot store file 'Record-Win7-Home-Premium-64Bit-80GB/Record-Win7-Home-Premium-64Bit-flat.vmdk' of size 86008397824, aborting
is there another utility I can use? (I want to compress the folder and copy it to another ESXI 5.0 Server).
Thanks!!
Dotan.
Please attach it to a vm and create an ovf. ovf will create a compressed version of VM
Use the winScp to get the files and then you can zip the files.
The below blog should be helpful
Please attach it to a vm and create an ovf. ovf will create a compressed version of VM
I copied the folder to my windows desktop and zipped it.
it is now about 6GB.
do you know if I can use "zip" (unzip) in ESXI?
Thanks for your help!!
Dotan.
yep you do have options. check this post
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/279754?start=0&tstart=0
Hi,
I tried to unzip it and got the following error:
unzip Record-Win7-Home-Premium-64Bit-80GB.zip -d elad
Archive: Record-Win7-Home-Premium-64Bit-80GB.zip
creating: Record-Win7-Home-Premium-64Bit-80GB/
inflating: Record-Win7-Home-Premium-64Bit-80GB/Record-Win7-Home-Premium-64Bit-flat.vmdk
unzip: inflate error
so "unzip" won't work as well on large files. I zipped the folder on my windows desktop with 7zip
To be honest I have not personally tested with large files. But smaller files have worked for me with unzip.