Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:42:09 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TAR HELP Message-ID: <20020326234209.GB29111@icarus.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <006001c1d515$48407d60$3866fed8@Leda500> References: <006001c1d515$48407d60$3866fed8@Leda500>
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:26:31PM -0500, LEDAMAY speakeasy wrote: > Anyone know how to create a tar file that spans say... 30meg chunks? > > I want to backup a server's /home drive and the tar file is over 5gigs... > Windows will not allow a file that large and it is a window machine I wanna > back it up to... If I can break it apart in chunks it will. Pkzip will do > what I want on a windows machine.. IE pkzip -r -p -v1440 or what ever it > was... and there is a way with the tar utility.. I just forget how > PLEASE LEMME KNOW! > This is going to be really ugly, so avert your eyes now if you are feeling sensitive... tar cvf mytarfile.tar /home split -b 100m mytarfile.tar splitfile. ## You end up with 100MB files, named splitfile.aa, splitfile.ab, etc cat splitfile.* >> mytarfile_reconstituted.tar Messy, but it works! Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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