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I have had a problem dumped on me that I cannot resolve. A user |
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archived some very large |
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datasets using Info-zip (app-arch/zip-2.32-r1) and the original data has |
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been deleted. The zip |
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executable is a 64-bit binary and the user assumed that large archives |
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were possible. A typical |
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archive is on the order of 70GB and the largest is over 200GB |
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(compressed sizes). /usr/bin/zip did |
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not complain about creating the archive and /usr/bin/unzip -l lists the |
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contents correctly so the user |
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did not think there were any problems until it came time to extract a |
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file. Extracting any file that |
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is past the 4GB mark in the archive results in a 'bad zipfile offset' |
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error. This is consistent with the |
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FAQ on Info-zip's web site. |
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I am guessing that all of the data is actually present in the zip |
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archives but I cannot get to it. Trying |
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version 3.0 of info-zip or any of the other linux & windows unzip |
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programs has not been successful |
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in extracting any of the later files in the archives. I'm at a loss; |
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does anybody have suggestions on |
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how to retrieve this data? Thanks. |
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Doug |
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Douglas O'Neal |
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Manager, Bioinformatics Core Center |
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Delaware Biotechnology Institute |
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