Re: Feature request: "split --first <size>" to affect first output file

[James Youngman]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Dave Turner
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tape drives and their media are large and expensive so I use writeable
> DVDs for my backups instead. GNU tar can write an archive across
> multiple tapes, using up any remaining space on one tape before moving
> to the next, but it cannot do the same on a DVD.
>
> A possible solution is to use 'split' to cut up a backup into smaller files
> and distribute them across DVDs:

Indeed.   But there already exists software more specifically suited
to this.  See for example "dar":

http://dar.linux.free.fr/

James.