[NBLUG/talk] Backups to DVD?

[Jack Smith]

On Dec 28, 2007 2:53 PM, Sean <seanvanco at gmail.com> wrote:

> Check out this forum that I found, as it gives the command on how to
> tar and split the resulting archive up into smaller segments, such as
> multiple 4GB files (pipe the output into the "split" command). Of
> course you'd probably want to use "tar -cvzf /foo/ ..." in order to
> get a .gz instead of a .tar.bz2 as it does in the forum.
>

OK, something about this isn't working.  Or I'm doing something wrong

]# tar  -cvzf  /home  |  split  -d  -b  4000m  -  archive.home.tar.gz.
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

Any ideas?
-- 
Jack Smith

English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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