Splitting an archive on multiple media
- by Robert Munteanu
I'm generating archives which are larger than my current physical media ( DVD ). I'd like to split those archives:
automatically - instead of generating mini-archives by hand;
consistently - so that an archive can be extracted independently of another.
For instance for a tree of 24GB which would be archived into 10GB I would get 3 archives, all of them < 4.7 GB and each of them being able to be extracted without the other 2.
I'm using dirvish so I'm archiving a filesystem tree.
Update: I'm using Linux.