Re^3: Archive::tar - out of memory

It seems that Archive::Tar will always create the archive in memory before writing it out and has no incremental way of building an archive.

Comment on Re^3: Archive::tar - out of memory - 3,2GB

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Re^4: Archive::tar - out of memory - 3,2GB by demichi (Beadle) on Jun 13, 2014 at 12:14 UTC
okay .. can you recommend another way of archiving/zipping where I can fix this issue?	[reply]
Re^5: Archive::tar - out of memory - 3,2GB by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 13, 2014 at 13:00 UTC
If you have an external `tar` executable, I would use that to create the tar file and append the files to the archive. There seems to be Archive::Tar::Wrapper, which should make switching from Archive::Tar trivial. There also is Archive::Tar::Stream, which has a different API but should be able to just append files with the `->AddFile()` call.	[reply] [d/l] [select]