Hi

Its not a problem of filesystem cpio in Hp UX cannot handle file greater the 2Gb.

You need to zip the file and then use GNU Tar to backup to tape.

This patch For 11.11 tar - PHCO_26423 from the HP Patch depot will patch up your TAR to handle 8Gb.

But after 8Gb even tar would fail and if your files are greater then that you need to invest in commercial backup solutions like HP Omnibackup.

By the way if you want to bypass the HP admin which i dont think so is a nice idea and you have root privs try installing GNU tar that can handle greater then 2Gb.

But you need to change your script to call tar instead of Cpio.

regards
Hrishy