<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 28, 2007 2:53 PM, Sean <<a href="mailto:seanvanco@gmail.com">seanvanco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Check out this forum that I found, as it gives the command on how to<br>tar and split the resulting archive up into smaller segments, such as<br>multiple 4GB files (pipe the output into the "split" command). Of<br>
course you'd probably want to use "tar -cvzf /foo/ ..." in order to<br>get a .gz instead of a .tar.bz2 as it does in the forum.<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">OK, something about this isn't working. Or I'm doing something wrong
<br><br>]# tar -cvzf /home | split -d -b 4000m - archive.home.tar.gz.<br>tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive<br><br>Any ideas?<br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.