[PLUG] 2 TAR questions

[David Fleck]

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.

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David Fleck
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