[CLUE-Talk] file-splitting

[Brandon N]

how about 'split'

I didn't see any mention of filesize limits, but that doesn't mean they
don't exist.

Brandon
--- David Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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