On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I have a VMWare virtual machine image of ~3.5GB, that I need to tar (and > hopefully gzip) into multiple (relatively) smaller archives that I can > backup onto CD-R.
Not quite if this meets your requirements, but how about using split? 'man split' indicates that you can split by bytes, lines etc. would (gzip|bzip)ing your file and then splitting the resulting file work?
-Mark
Mark,
I never thought of that. I tested your approach on a ~500K zip file. I split it into two 256K files then cat-ed them back together into another file. I ran the md5sum on both files and they checked out. Then, just to be sure, I booted over to windoze and unzipped them an ran the .exe file.
Everything worked great. I appreciate your advice.
-Roberto
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