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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:32:19 -0600
To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com>
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Subject: Re: Splitting a tar archive
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Nils: What's the program that puts "split" files back together afterwards...?

At 10:22 PM 11.1.2001 +0100, Nils Holland wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Scott Nolde wrote:
>
>> I'd like to backup a series of files to CD-ROM, but the entire collection
>> is approximately 1.1G.  Is there a way I can make a compressed tar archive
>> of the files and span it across multiple CDs (after running mkisofs on
>> each 650Mb segment)?
>
>I see two possibilites:
>
>1) Tell tar to create a multi-volume archive using the -M and -T option
>(see manpage). Multi-volume archives cannot be compressed, however,
>
>2) Create one big compressed tar file and then use split (see "man split")
>to cut it into pieces. Then burn these onto your CDs.
>
>Hope that helps
>
>Nils
>
>Nils Holland
>Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany
>http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org
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