i made a stupid assumption ... tar would do something intelligently.
I was running a back up such as: tar -cvlf file.tar -L 500000 /disk /disk2
What i thought this would do is back up /disk and /disk2 in multiple tar files of 500megs each. Instead, it creates file.tar and when it hits 500megs, waits for me to hit return and then just continues where it stopped at, except it starts file.tar over.
Can someone tell me a way that i can tar up (tar, zip, compress i dont care) a group of directories, and have them split up by whatever size i set? and have it be multiple files ... i dont want to sit there and manually rename files or anything. I want to let it run and come back later and have X number of archive files. Ultimately these will be burned on a dvd drive on a windows machine.
thanks,
ian
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