From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 18:54:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9636D16A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:54:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mars.oxeo.com (mars.oxeo.com [66.230.143.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D911243D6D for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:54:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabrio@teamperfecto.com) Received: from perfecto.oxeo.com (perfecto.oxeo.com [66.230.155.138]) by mars.oxeo.com (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB7Is6Eh023213 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:54:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gabrio@teamperfecto.com) Received: from tpworkstation (host220-170.pool8252.interbusiness.it [82.52.170.220] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by perfecto.oxeo.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB7Is8e4023569 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:54:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gabrio@teamperfecto.com) Message-ID: <005901c4dc8e$3ea64f90$dcaa3452@tpworkstation> From: "Gabrio - Team Perfecto" To: References: <375401c4dbad$4cf7cd30$dcaa3452@tpworkstation> <44sm6inoh9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:46:44 +0100 Organization: Team Perfecto MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Subject: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backups-floppybackups.html X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:54:08 -0000 hi yeah, i need to have single pieces on the server still...thanks anyway! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" To: "Gabrio - Team Perfecto" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backups-floppybackups.html > "Gabrio - Team Perfecto" writes: > > > basically i am trying to use something like > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backups-floppybackups.html > > - for splitting a bigger archive, (using the -M option) just that i > > want to compress something i have already on the server so that i > > can create several smaller archives that can stay on the server... > > Right. The -M option isn't compatible with compression. I get around > that by making a backup to a staging area on disk, and then using > split(1) to chop it into pieces. If you're keeping it on the server > anyway, there's no reason to break it into pieces. > > I suspect I don't understand quite what you were trying to say; if I'm > too far off, please ask a more specific question. > > > i was trying this script > > http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/split-tar which looks good > > but apparently does not work with BSD's tar. > > Just read the script; it is quite clear about needing Gnu tar. > In FreeBSD 5.3, that's available as /usr/bin/gtar, but in the future > you may need to install it as a port. > > > do you have any suggestions? thanks > > I described my approach earlier; for details, see > "http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/systuff/". >