Try using the `split` utility. To tar the current directory with bzip2 compression to a series of 1GB files `xaa`, `xab`, etc: ``` % tar -cf - . | bzip2 | split -b1g ```
To recover: ``` % cat x* | bunzip2 | tar -xvf - ``` Tim >> On Jan 2, 2026, at 07:01, Steve Bowes-Phipps <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I can’t seem to find the answer I need online but is it possible to get tar >> to backup to multiple files, so that I can circumvent the file size >> restriction on Linux of 4GB? >> >> Many thanks. >> >> Steve
