Re: Question re: splitting files
Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> writes:
> vaxerdec@frontiernet.net (Scott McDermott) wrote:
> >I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a
> >disk.
>
> Do you even need to set the size? I find this works pretty well:
>
> % tar cvMf /dev/fd0 *
>
> and at the other end:
>
> % tar xvMf /dev/fd0
>
> Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble
> with this.
Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!)....
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