[wellylug] spliting iso

[Darryl Hamilton]

E.Chalaron wrote:
> At second thought splitted tars of 4.4 Gb each could make my day.
> I know there is the -M option for several volumes in tar, still I have not 
> found the command to say "split at 4.4 Gb"
> Then after I will mkisofs them...
> 
> So anybody with the tar thing volume/limitation ? I tried -L but it is asking 
> to insert a tape ?????????

What I'd do is get a list of the whole lot (using find), split that list 
up into groups of 1300 files (this is assuming they're all exactly 3.5MB 
each), and put each list in a separate text file (ie list1.txt, 
list2.txt etc).

Then, you can use tar as follows

tar cf backup1.tar -T list1.txt

and repeat with backup2.tar/list2.txt backup3.tar/list3.txt

1300 files, if they're all the same size, is a little bit over 4.4GB, 
but should still fit on to a DVD.

d.