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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:24:38 am | by DanielLawson | |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:04:55 am | by MichaelBordignon | Revert |
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-Sometimes it is necessary to split a tar archive over several volumes, or files
.
-
-If you specify several archive files, tar will use them in the order given. Try something like this:
-
-__tar -c -L 50000 -f archive1 -f archive2 -f archive3 ... path__
-
-Be sure to specify enough archive files to hold the entire data.
-
-You won't find this use of multiple -f options mentioned in the
-man page, but it is in the info page. (You have to hunt around
-to find it, though--the GNU tar info page is poorly organized.)
-
-Here is my crackin bash script to backup stuff into 1gig volumes:
-
- #!/bin/bash
-
- cd /test/archive/
- each_archivesize=1000000
- totalkbytes=`du -s . | cut -d "." -f 1`
- num_volumes=`expr $totalkbytes / $each_archivesize + 1`
- tar_args=`for i in $(seq 1 $num_volumes) ; do echo -n "-f archive$i.tar "; done`
-
- tar -cvL $each_archivesize $tar_args --totals *
+Describe [MultipleTarVolumes] here
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