Is there a way to run tar on a direcory that is 2Gig and have tar create multiple file that are 650M each? Yes, I am trying to create a CD backup. None of the programs I have seen create 650M tarballs. They all go directly to multiple CD's. I would like to create the multiple ISO's first. The directory is on a nfs mounted share so I don't want my entire / just /mnt/shared/pub which is 3Gig in size. Lance