http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backups-floppybackups.html

[Gabrio - Team Perfecto]

hi yeah, i need to have single pieces on the server still...thanks anyway!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org>
To: "Gabrio - Team Perfecto" <gabrio at teamperfecto.com>
Cc: <questions at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:59 PM
Subject: Re:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backups-floppybackups.html


> "Gabrio - Team Perfecto" <gabrio at teamperfecto.com> writes:
>
> > basically i am trying to use something like
> >
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backups-floppybackups.html
> > - for splitting a bigger archive, (using the -M option) just that i
> > want to compress something i have already on the server so that i
> > can create several smaller archives that can stay on the server...
>
> Right.  The -M option isn't compatible with compression.  I get around
> that by making a backup to a staging area on disk, and then using
> split(1) to chop it into pieces.  If you're keeping it on the server
> anyway, there's no reason to break it into pieces.
>
> I suspect I don't understand quite what you were trying to say; if I'm
> too far off, please ask a more specific question.
>
> > i was trying this script
> > http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/split-tar which looks good
> > but apparently does not work with BSD's tar.
>
> Just read the script; it is quite clear about needing Gnu tar.
> In FreeBSD 5.3, that's available as /usr/bin/gtar, but in the future
> you may need to install it as a port.
>
> > do you have any suggestions? thanks
>
> I described my approach earlier; for details, see
> "http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/systuff/".
>