Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:11:10 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Cody Holland <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Question Message-ID: <4E42847D5D89835606B85A0B@dog.dmpriest.net.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998628D909@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998628D909@corpsrv.RedMoon.local>
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--On 07 June 2005 11:02 -0500 Cody Holland <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com> wrote: > Ok, I'm trying to do a simple tar+gzip backup for my file system. I can > do this no problem. The backup is a little less than 2Gb. What I would > like to do is chop this up into 650Mb pieces that I can ftp over to a > server with a cd-r and burn them. Does anyone know a good utility that > can do this, or another method that will accomplish what I'm trying to > do? split -b (see the man page) - or I think tar has an option to define both the 'size of the tape' (in 1k blocks) and a script to run 'between tape changes' - so you should be able to sort something out with that... -Karl
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