Timeline for Splitting large directory tree into specified-size chunks?
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| Mar 29, 2011 at 23:43 | comment | added | imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev | If talking about tools that give tar+split-like results, then there's also dar; here's the note about its relevant feature: "(SLICES) it was designed to be able to split an archive over several removable media whatever their number is and whatever their size is". Compared to tar+split, I assume, it allows some easier ways to access the archived files. (BTW, it has also a feature resembling distribute: "DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP" & "DIRECTORY TREE SNAPSHOT", but one may not like that the result is a special format, not an ISO with a dir tree.) | |
| Mar 28, 2011 at 11:16 | comment | added | MattBianco | "bite-size trees" doesn't quite sound like rar, unless you unpack each "part" again into its own directory, which of course won't work, since the parts are not designed like that, and not split on file boundaries. | |
| Mar 28, 2011 at 9:55 | comment | added | rvs | Than why rar? tar (+bz2) + split is more native approach for *nix. | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 20:40 | history | answered | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | CC BY-SA 2.5 |