Re: Question re: splitting files
vaxerdec@frontiernet.net (Scott McDermott) wrote:
>I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a
>disk.
Do you even need to set the size? I find this works pretty well:
% tar cvMf /dev/fd0 *
and at the other end:
% tar xvMf /dev/fd0
Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble
with this.
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