On Friday 04 July 2003 12:50, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are > about 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to > big output file (i think max size is around 2GB). Is there a way to > split the output in more files? >
tar cf - /path/to/data | split -b 1024m - outfile This will create 1GB big files called outfileaa, outfileab, outfileac, etc. To restore, you will have to do the following: cat outfile* | tar xf - Anyway, this is most likely not the way you want to make backups. Search around a bit in the archives, backup strategies are discussed fairly often. Maybe Karsten M. Self drops in and provides you a link to his backup strategy page... joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
