On Friday 04 July 2003 13:14, Joerg Johannes wrote: > 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... > I know :) Its only just a small thing wich i will delete soon. Ill try something with my system today and whant a copy fast and ready.
Thanks for ur help. cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annoyed about M$ Windows? Don't worry. Try Linux! (www.linux.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
