[ale] Cutting up directory

[Jerry Z. Yu]

What I've been doing is simply tar the whole thing up then gzip/bzip2
it, then burn the big tar ball to the CD.  I have small system using ~1G
disk space, 'gzip -9' gives me ~260M.  gzip is preferred since it is
universal on LINUX.  for your 4G directory, I guess you'll need to
seperate it into two tar balls.

cd bigDir && tar /bigTEMPspace/1.tar some.dir some.file
cd bigDir && tar /bigTEMPspace/2.tar other.dir other.file

Instead of using gzip/bzip2, if you are keen on security, you can also
take advantage of gpg's compression plus encryption. Of course, where
to store escorted keys will be an issue.

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Chris Fowler wrote:

#I have a directory that is 4GB is size, how can I cut it up into 700MB
#chunks for burning to CD.  It is too hard to do it manually and I have
#many files to backup.
#
#Thanks,
#Chris
#
#

Jerry Z. Yu				mailto: z.yu at ptek.com
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