Re: [Help-tar] File compression

[Siva Nesan]

Hi

Below are the commands that i am executing in both the servers. 

tar -cvf $EXPT/$SRC.tar $app/$SRC;

gzip -c $EXPT/$SRC.tar > $EXPT/$SRC$DATE.tar.gz;

Below are the warnings that i get, no errors

 WARNING - 1040152 - Failed to load ZT library.
 WARNING - 1040156 - SSL initialization failed with error code [1040152]..

Thanks & Regards,

Shiva

On 24 February 2016 at 13:26, Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tuesday 23 of February 2016 18:36:54 Siva Nesan wrote:
> I am creating a tar.gz file in two different AIX servers of same versions.
> size of the files are similar, however size of the tar.gz files are very
> different. one is 6GB and another is 50GB. Please advise if anything can be
> done to investigate.

Hi Siva, I believe it is GNU tar ..  Are there sparse files involved?  Is
tar returning with error exit status?  Which options have you turned on
while you created those tarballs?

Pavel

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