[GRASSLIST:668] Re: off topic: backing up huge mapsets

[Wolfgang]

If you are on windows then have a look for 7zip http://www.7-zip.org/

cheers
Wolfgang

Benjamin Ducke schrieb:
> tar --help:
> 
>  Device selection and switching:
> 
>   -f, --file=ARCHIVE         use archive file or device ARCHIVE
>       --force-local          archive file is local even if has a colon
>   -F, --info-script=NAME, --new-volume-script=NAME
>                              run script at end of each tape (implies -M)
>   -L, --tape-length=NUMBER   change tape after writing NUMBER x 1024 bytes
>   -M, --multi-volume         create/list/extract multi-volume archive
>       --rmt-command=COMMAND  use given rmt COMMAND instead of rmt
>       --rsh-command=COMMAND  use remote COMMAND instead of rsh
>       --volno-file=FILE      use/update the volume number in FILE
> 
> ... so options -L and -M should be what you are looking for?
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> 
> Jaime Carrera wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know this is off topic but probably some of you had experienced this 
>> problem as well. I have a very large mapset (19 GB) which is not 
>> compressed by using bz2 (the final tar.bz2 file was 17.2 GB). I have a 
>> backup of this mapset on an USB hard disk but I would like to create 
>> another copy in a couple of double layer DVDs (I don't want to take 
>> any chances with the data that I have). Does someone know how to 
>> create three smaller files which I can later burn on separate DVDs?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Jaime
>>
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