Hi - Season's greetings to all :-) I'm doing a big file archive of my years' work, and I want to span it over several CDs.
To date, I have used the command tar -czPf /home/archive_file.tar.gz \ big \ file \ list \ which \ spans \ home \ directories \ for \ several \ users which works fine for me. I save it as a shell script, and run it from time to time. Now I want to expand the file list to include many more directories, and I end up with about 4 gig of tar file. Oops! If I try to use Karchiver to split the file, it bombs out (I'm on SuSE 8.2, using Karchver 3.1.1). The man page for tar doesn't document how to use the -M switch for a multivolume archive, so I'd like to ask if anyone has experience of using it, and how I can split my archive into 650Mb segments. No doubt there is an easy way to do what I want, and i tried Karchiver to do this, but no success. If there's an easier way, _please_ tell me how!!! TIA, Neil _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
