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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:56:50 am | by MichaelBordignon | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:24:32 am | by DanielLawson | Revert |
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!!Multiple Tar Files
Sometimes it is necessary to split a tar archive over several volumes, or files.
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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 $tar_args --totals *
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+Another approach is to use split, ie
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+$ tar cvzf - dirs | split --bytes=1m - archive.tar.gz.part-
