Zipping large backups (>4GB)?

• smv929

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  April 23, 2004 at 7:11 am

  #107770

  Our company needs a copy of the production database to be brought back as a test database. The backup file is 6GB. They don't have a dvd burner handy, so they were going to just zip it ftp it. Anyway, they cannot get any zip software to zip anything greater than 4GB -- even registered versions. Is there a zip program for this (to use in a one-time situation for zipping large backups).

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• Nicholas Cain

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  April 23, 2004 at 7:44 am

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  The latest version of pkzip from http://www.pkware.com/ does files above 4GB, I belive that Winzip 8.1 also does the job.

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• Nicholas Cain

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  April 23, 2004 at 7:45 am

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  Other than that, you could look at using an evaluation version of Litespeed from http://www.imceda.com which compresses the backup as it does it.

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• smv929

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  April 26, 2004 at 7:07 am

  #504213

  Thanks everone.

  
  smv929