[lug] TAR Archiving

[Calvin Dodge]

Kristopher Applegate wrote:
> 
> If I feed the output into split, does it archive
> first, creating a very large 15+GB file, then split
> it? The reason I don't want to do that is because I

No - you _pipe_ the output of tar to split.  The only data that is actually
written to disk is the output of split.


> don't have the spare 15+GB anywhere to use. The device
> I am backing up to literally craps out when it hits
> 2GB. However, if it splits it on the fly, that would
> be great. Thanks...

That's exactly what it does.

I use it to back up some big directories on Mom's computer - I set split to
make the file size just a bit smaller than 640 megs, so I can back up the
resulting chunks to a CD if needed.

Calvin
 
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