Re: Back up entire system

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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:53:55 -0800, John C. Linford wrote:

> Thanks.  I'll give that a try, but there could be a problem:  The file
> generated by dd are huge, even after gzip.  How can I break it apart
> so it will span multiple backup disks?  Say 700MB chunks for CDs?

I'd suggest using the split utility:

split -b 700m --verbose my_bigass_backup.tar.gz my_bigass_backup.tar.gz

Rejoin them with cat.

cat my_biggass_backup.tar.gz.a* > my_bigass_backup.tar.gz

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