Nicholas Leippe wrote:
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.
from the gnu tar manpage--
-L, --tape-length N
change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes
You can split the archive across multiple tapes [good to know], but I'd
like something that takes the N*1024, and splits up the archive at the
nearest file boundary. I'm thinking of the case where you split over
several DVD's-- although it would work well for CD's, tapes etc...
Justin Gedge
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