Tar fails with a message: value <NUMBER> out of off_t range 0..8589934591, when archiving huge sparse files with --sparse (-S).
Issue
- When creating backup with amanda, tar throws an error:
/bin/tar: value 20294888448 out of off_t range 0..8589934591
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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