On Thursday 09 February 2006 14:42, justin gedge wrote: > Is there a good way [IE a program available] to take this and divide it > up cleanly so it could span 2 DDS3 tapes, or 10 DVD's if needed. I'm > kind of thinking about how linux distros- you'll have 1-2 DVD's or 6-7 > CD's and they're structured so you could look at individual disks-- or > combine them all back together if you have the drive space available. > This is something that has plagued me since I started here. You > typically trim as much fat out of a project before you archive-- but as > time goes on they're getting bigger and bigger. 2GB just isn't what it > use to be. I can obviously move to larger capacity tapes-- but I've > wondered if there wasn't a nice program to help divide file trees up so > they could span multiple media-- but still be readable as independent > media.
tar can split an archive across multiple volumes. -- Respectfully, Nicholas Leippe Sales Team Automation, LLC 1335 West 1650 North, Suite C Springville, UT 84663 +1 801.853.4090 http://www.salesteamautomation.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
