Good evening, I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (preferrably with gzip) to create a tarball which creates a new file when each .tar (or better yet, each tar.gz) reaches a size of 2.2 Gbytes.
Essentially, I want to archive a large directory into 2.2 Gbyte tarballs which are "spanning" in nature. I have an 18 Gbyte directory tree that I want to compress into a set of 2.2 Gbyte archives so that I can copy the individual tarballs onto separate DVD-RAM media later. It appears that the -M (multple) flag only works properly when you actually run out of space on the medium you are archiving to. Is there a way to force tar to create iterative files in a specified size? Thus far, I haven't figured it out from the man pages, nor from a number of 'net searches of list archives. If anybody knows the proper arguments to achieve this, please let me know. I absolutely refuse to use windows to perform this spanning archive process, as I am trying to work solely in GNU/Linux. Thanks for your help. regards, -adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------- http://www.blomberg.ac AIM: scarpa909 ICQ: 199041 real email ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
