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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:50:33 -0800
From: Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs?
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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

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