On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:31:32 -0700 Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > 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, >
Hi Ian, tar -cvlO /disk /disk2 | split -b 500000 - file.tar. The -O option to tar says to send the archive to the standard output. split will create files names "file.tar." plus a two letter extension for as many files as it takes to store the input. To get a listing of what's in the archive, something like: cat file.tar.* | tar -tvf - Of course you could add the -z or -j to the tar command so that the output is compressed too. Cheers, Sean -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
