backup questions.

simcop2387 · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject: backup questions.

ok i'm going to be reformatting, and i've got some data i'm trying to backup (5GB) the only drive that i've got that i can use is a 20GB Vfat partition with 6GB free, now the thing is vfat has a file size limit of 2gb so i can't tar it all up like i was going to, is there anyway to make tar split the tarball into several .tar files automatically? or another way to back this up?

m.mascherpa · Bodhisattva Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 139 Location: italy

i had some problems splitting tar files some time ago.
what about rar? it has good compression ratio and you
can split files however you want

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simcop2387 · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:51 am Post subject:

i didn't think of rar but do you know off the top of your head if its available off of the liveCD?

m.mascherpa · Bodhisattva Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 139 Location: italy

it's not available in the liveCD, but you could just
download the binary and execute it from the liveCD

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simcop2387 · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:38 am Post subject:

hmm didn't have much luck, rar doesnt seem to like symlinks much, my homedir is littered with them, and it kinda segfaults. maybe i'll see if i can get some file splitting software that i can pipe data into and then maybe i can pipe a tar into it.

modal · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 277

this looks interesting to me...a ghost for linux.
i haven't tried it quite yet...but, i will soon.
http://www.microwerks.net/%7Ehugo/

good luck

simcop2387 · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 10:36 pm Post subject:

the thing is that requires a functional linux setup, no can do i need to reformat to get that far right now. and what i mostly need is some kind of file splitter, i found a perl script a minute ago to do this and all you have to do is cat the files together afterwards. i'll mess with it a bit later.