Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:32:19 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splitting a tar archive Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011102113219.00f94888@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <20011101222033.C53366-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> References: <20011101160655.O92340-100000@bsd.smnolde.com>
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Nils: What's the program that puts "split" files back together afterwards...? At 10:22 PM 11.1.2001 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: >On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Scott Nolde wrote: > >> I'd like to backup a series of files to CD-ROM, but the entire collection >> is approximately 1.1G. Is there a way I can make a compressed tar archive >> of the files and span it across multiple CDs (after running mkisofs on >> each 650Mb segment)? > >I see two possibilites: > >1) Tell tar to create a multi-volume archive using the -M and -T option >(see manpage). Multi-volume archives cannot be compressed, however, > >2) Create one big compressed tar file and then use split (see "man split") >to cut it into pieces. Then burn these onto your CDs. > >Hope that helps > >Nils > >Nils Holland >Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany >http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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