On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:31:32PM -0700, Ian L wrote: > I was running a back up such as: tar -cvlf file.tar -L 500000 /disk /disk2 > > What i thought this would do is back up /disk and /disk2 in multiple tar > files of 500megs each. Instead, it creates file.tar and when it hits > 500megs, waits for me to hit return and then just continues where it > stopped at, except it starts file.tar over. > > Can someone tell me a way that i can tar up (tar, zip, compress i dont > care) a group of directories, and have them split up by whatever size i > set? and have it be multiple files ...
tar | split
We've been doing that for eons to save large archives on an NFS server with a 2GB file size limit.
-- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
heh, thanks. I just came to a similar conclusion. I just downloaded a windows program called mastersplitter to do the same thing.
thanks,
Ian
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