OT: usage of split
Chris
racerx at makeworld.com
Mon Jun 20 12:58:18 GMT 2005
Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> Regarding the usage of split to divide files into several parts:
>
> 1. Can the split utility be used on binary files?
>
> 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the
> original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using
> redirection (>>); but can you do that with a binary file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Gould
I had somewhat of the same question. Here's my docs on how it was
explained to me:
To create a tarball backup and split it up for CD burning.
Something like:
tar cjf - /dir/to/backup |split -b 650m - bkupname-
Note that using a pipe saves s lot of space. This will produce backups
in the form of bkupname-aa, bkupname-ab etc.
Restoring the backup would be something like:
cd /parent/of/backupdir; cat /path/to/bkup/bkupname-* |tar xjf -
Note that you need to have all backup files on a disk for this to work
properly.
This is what I do to archive my system to a CD Rom. It's sorta like what
winzip does with diskette spanning.
--
Best regards,
Chris
The man who has no more problems is out of the game.
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