Tar down load

[Joel Hammer]

If you use split to breakup the files when you tar them, eg:
tar -czPv FilesToTar | split -b 1000m - tarfile
seems to be the right series of commands, YMMV.
To untar the files, this works:
cat tarfile* | tar -xzvPf -
Joel

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:34:21PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Isn't there some file size problem at 2 gigs? I know I have to split up
> my tar files when I do a complete system backup up. I use ext2. About
> two gigs is when things seem to get bad.  I would split (man split)
> this file and then try it.
> 
> Joel
> 
> > > 
> > >    It is just  regular tar file of a downloads that I have accumalated. I
> > > am transferring to a new box for install. Nothing speacial here
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [rick at RSivernell rick]$ ll /opt/DownLoads/*tar
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2147483648 Apr  9 02:11 /opt/DownLoads/dl.tar
> > 
> > Holy smokes! Almost 2Gb! I don't suppose you can "gzip -9" or,
> > better, "bzip2" it?
> > 
> > K
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