[CLUE-Talk] file-splitting

[David Willson]

I've been on this one for well over a day now. I'm ready to spit. I have 
a file that is 20Gb. One file. It's a SQL Server database. I want to 
break that file into chunks of 1Gb or less, so that I can then compress 
the chunks into 640Mb pieces and burn those pieces to CDs.

I can't seem to find anything that will pass the 1Gb barrier when 
file-splitting. 'tar' will go multi-volume and set-length, but it craps 
out after processing 1Gb.

This is the command I'm using at this time:
tar cv --multi-volume --tape-length=500000 file=blannon.tar Lannon_Data.MDF
It goes to 500Mb on the first file, asks for a "second tape", which is 
great, but when the second file gets to 357,800Kb, it quietly stops 
processing, as if it had finished the job.

Just so you know, I am using GNU tar in Win2k cmd prompt.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.