tar - explicit spanning

First off, my apology if this post reached the list already. The subcribe process took far longer than I expected to get me onto the list, and so I fear I may have missed any replies... thats if this post actually reached the list. Good afternoon, I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (

tar - explicit spanning

Good evening, I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (preferrably with gzip) to create a tarball which creates a new file when each .tar (or better yet, each tar.gz) reaches a size of 2.2 Gbytes. Essentially, I want to archive a large directory into 2.2 Gbyte tarballs which are "spanning" in