Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:50:33 -0800 From: Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com> To: Kevin Brunelle <frobbnicate42@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? Message-ID: <200201130550.g0D5oXA44523@blackbox.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <20020113042510.87902.qmail@web10402.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020113042510.87902.qmail@web10402.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:25:10 -0800 (PST) Kevin Brunelle <frobbnicate42@yahoo.com> wrote: > try. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to > break up a tar > archive on a size boundary ... aka backup0.tar, > backup1.tar, etc. All > broken at the 700MB boundary so I can make iso images > out of them and > then burn them to disk. I could do this by hand by split(1) is what you want. I haven't tried this, but you probably want to do something like this: % tar -cf - /dir | gzip -c | split -b650m cheers, mike makonnen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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