--- Martín Marqués <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 28 May 2002 08:40, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 08:10 28 May 2002, Martín Marqués <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > | On Lun 27 May 2002 21:42, daniel wrote: > > | > say i have a whole bunch of files i wanna tarball weekly > (~2gb). i > > | > can't back that up to a cd, so the first thought is to have > tar > > | > compress the whole lot into 650mb chunks. can this be done > so that > > | > each chunk is a useable fragment? or do i have to reassemble > all the > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Ooopppsss. :-) > > > | > pieces in order to extract some data from the combined > tarball? > > | > > | man split > > | man cat > > > > Looks like you missed his desire that each part works standalone. > > Split/cat won't do that. Easiest approach would be arrange your files to tar up in 650 mb segments. eg tar cvf part1.tar selection of files 1 tar cvf part2.tar selection of files 2 etc
(I know this aint a guru answer but it would work) You should be able to tell tar to do this but dont know now You could also try cpio which works slightly differently > -- > Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, > si podés usar PostgreSQL? > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Martín Marqués | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica > Universidad Nacional > del Litoral > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
