On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:41:26PM -0500, Chris wrote: > Can tar of some other compression util be set to archive a directory in > chunks of say, 650 meg? >
Something like tar cjf - /dir/to/backup |split -b 650m - bkupname- should do the trick. Note that using a pipe saves s lot of space. This will produce backups in the form of bkupname-aa, bkupname-ab etc. Restoring the backup would be something like: cd /parent/of/backupdir; cat /path/to/bkup/bkupname-* |tar xjf - Note that you need to have all backup files on a disk for this to work properly. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards
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