on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:32:57AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way to run tar on a direcory that is 2Gig and have tar > create multiple file that are 650M each? > > Yes, I am trying to create a CD backup. None of the programs I have > seen create 650M tarballs. They all go directly to multiple CD's. I > would like to create the multiple ISO's first. The directory is on a > nfs mounted share so I don't want my entire / just /mnt/shared/pub > which is 3Gig in size.
Not tar per se, but you might be able to do this with 'split'. You'll
have to reassemble the pieces afterwards:
tar czvf - source | split -b 650m tarpiece-
...should create files tarpiece-aa tarpiece-ab tarpiece-ac...
To reassemble, copy to disk, then:
cat tarpiece-* > file.tar.gz
...will reassemble the tarfile.
Peace.
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