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From: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl>
To: "Cody Holland" <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com>
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Subject: Re: Backup Question
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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 11:02:28 -0500
"Cody Holland" <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com> wrote:

> Ok, I'm trying to do a simple tar+gzip backup for my file system.  I
> can do this no problem.  The backup is a little less than 2Gb.  What I
> would like to do is chop this up into 650Mb pieces that I can ftp over
> to a server with a cd-r and burn them.  Does anyone know a good
> utility that can do this, or another method that will accomplish what
> I'm trying to do?

you can try split, see : man split