Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:17:36 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tar chunks Message-ID: <20050417091736.GB40272@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4261A2A6.1000407@makeworld.com> References: <4261A2A6.1000407@makeworld.com>
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--NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:41:26PM -0500, Chris wrote: > Can tar of some other compression util be set to archive a directory in > chunks of say, 650 meg? >=20 Something like tar cjf - /dir/to/backup |split -b 650m - bkupname- should do the trick. Note that using a pipe saves s lot of space. This will produce backups in the form of bkupname-aa, bkupname-ab etc. Restoring the backup would be something like: cd /parent/of/backupdir; cat /path/to/bkup/bkupname-* |tar xjf - Note that you need to have all backup files on a disk for this to work properly. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCYimwEnfvsMMhpyURAk5cAJ9m8CPdN9VPWADJcygVJ60iWmLN2gCgsKzP azwBMuifj4T4gmia0pzd1Jg= =1c+J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+--
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