Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 01:22:50 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-volume archives Message-ID: <20190921182250.GA15412@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <05ca327a-2b01-54fd-016a-ba84584095a7@gmail.com> References: <20190921063003.GA81956@admin.sibptus.ru> <05ca327a-2b01-54fd-016a-ba84584095a7@gmail.com>
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--k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MJ wrote: >=20 > > > > Which is now the most convenient way to create multi-volume archives? To > > fit an archive on a FAT32 flash drive, a volume size should not exceed = 4g. > > > > I have traditionally used "tar | split" to pack, then "cat | tar" to > > unpack. But split is very slow, and generally this way is clumsy. > > > > I don't want to use "zip -s" either, because I think zip does not > > preserve symlinks, hardlinks, permissions... to cut a long story short, > > I don't believe in zip as a Unix archiver. > > > > Any more ideas? >=20 >=20 > Hi Victor, >=20 > If you don't like zip, what about 7zip? It has volumes which allow you to= break it up on the fly into parts Hmm, maybe 7z in tar mode. It does not preserve permissions in 7-zip mode. > Whether this is overall faster than tar|split is unknown. "7z a -ttar -v2G" seems indeed faster than tar|split I just don't know if its tar format can be trusted to preserve the metadata= =2E=20 --=20 Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJdhmp6AAoJEA2k8lmbXsY0zCUIAKXxjoFcJn4Qaa1bj8uuvtSR gOZxZ3RTYmCUhj33nEpOItIIjGfW5nnDJw8KMDoYlk9lJNI01a7zcY+QaItaRMgw erU2JDFBTgeTNaxxXRbw3lk7cKRL79mQNQCeiwHRsyNoaoClLQU9Dn8ClJwsri9i AShilkSKn/VsACgkCgAyjAZM1BIhw5yHXgx5H62C1nWIEvsvfABXbPAqH81WMU+9 zfMvGSRb4wmQ3lubM5yho0wfRQJYyhjnGFUGWOu8Jkag6LTZEt2WD1ac+3NO8FNH BztSDYB0FRxxJPOx7fMFm6uxu2Culj5tUTLwoVQyj7pYD1D1ihCZIWaW3likKLA= =T7q8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--
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