[PLUG] 2 TAR questions

[guy1656]

Terry Layne wrote:
: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 08:57:57 -0500 (CDT), David Fleck wrote
:
: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, guy1656 wrote:
: > > SO, the question: What is a best/most proper way to create a number of
: > > backup files that split up into a number of <=2GB files. For example,
: > > is there a way to carve up a 5 GB tar.gz file into 'filename-1.tar.gz,'
: > > 'filename-2.tar.gz,' and 'filename-3.tar.gz,' of around 2GB, 2GB and
: > > 1GB respectively.
: >
: > My first inclination would be to use 'split'.  man split, etc.
:
: Sorry if this has already been covered, I walked into the middle of the
: thread.  But I get by just fine using:
:
: tar -cv  -L 1000000 -F myscript -f archive.tar stuff/to/backup
:
: This creates chunks that are 1 GB in size.  myscript is actually the backup
: script that calls this tar command in the first place.  When called in this
: instance it provides the next archive name.  That way I end up with
: backup00.tar, backup01.tar, etc.  When all done I gzip the lot of them.  I
: picked 1 GB because after gzip it is safely small enough for a cdrom.
:
: I don't think you'd want to split tar.gz files because you'd need to put
: them back together to restore anything.

Greetings:

It's been a while since tha last time I could experiment with this issue.
Looking at the kind person's response (thank you, BTW) I can't figure out what 
substituted in where he writes 'myscript.'

Any hints?

- GLL