tar - explicit spanning
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subcribe process took far longer than I expected to get me onto the list,
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Good afternoon,
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 nature. I have an 18 Gbyte directory tree that I
want to compress into a set of 2.2 Gbyte archives so that I can copy the
individual tarballs onto separate DVD-RAM media later. It appears that
the -M (multple) flag only works properly when you actually run out of
space on the medium you are archiving to. Is there a way to force tar to
create iterative files in a specified size?
Thus far, I haven't figured it out from the man pages, nor from a number
of 'net searches of list archives. If anybody knows the proper arguments
to achieve this, please let me know. I absolutely refuse to use windows
to perform this spanning archive process, as I am trying to work solely in
GNU/Linux.
Thanks for your help.
regards,
-adam
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