On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:57, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > 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? > > Have you looked into the -z or -j options?
My experience with -j (bzip2) option is that it gives slightly better compression than -z (gzip) at the cost of 5 to 10 times longer to do the job. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
