How do I 'tar' a huge file?
I have a VMWare virtual machine image of ~3.5GB, that I need to tar (and
hopefully gzip) into multiple (relatively) smaller archives that I can
backup onto CD-R.
I know that if I invoke tar with -L and give it the media size in KB, I can
generate a multivolume archive. However, when I give tar the file name in
which to store the archive it overwrites the file for each volume (since I
can't actually change the media).
So, I thought I would get smart and open two terminals and when I was
prompted to change media and press return, I would go to the second terminal
and change the name of the file from archive.tar to archive01.tar (and so on
in a one up manner).
This actually worked in that I was able to store the whole file into
seperate archives. But, when I tried to untar, it failed on the first file,
saying it encountered an unexpected EOF.
Am I missing something here? or can this simply not be done?
-Roberto Sanchez
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