Using TAR to create a split archive...

dspahn · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 392

I have read the man pages and I don't see anything that addresses the use of tar to create a split archive. Can this be done? I want to limit the size of my tarballs to 8gb so I can backup data to DVD-DL's.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks!
Dan

avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

easy target · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 134

I don't think it is possible. tar is about putting many files into one, not many :). You may want to look at dar.

gimpel · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

just pipe tar's stdout to split, like