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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Chris wrote:

> Can tar of some other compression util be set to archive a directory in
> chunks of say, 650 meg?

If you have the space you could always tar first, then split(1).


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