zip / tar multiple volumes 1

[umeman]

Admins,

I am trying to compress a 10 GB file into 10 1 GB files
using zip or tar on a Solaris 8 machine, then I want to ftp these files and uncompress them onto another Solaris 8 machine.

If you have done something similar, please let me know how this can be done.

Thanks
Umeman

 

[klasan]

Compress? or split your file into ten files ?

 

[umeman]

I want to split the tar file into 10 smaller files

 

[klasan]

Try with the split command (see man page).

ex.
# split -b1000m file.tar

where 1000m is the size of the resulting files (1000 megabytes)

# ls
file.tar
xaa
xab
xac
xad
xae
xaf
xag
xah
xai
xaj

# compress x*
# ftp ............

 

[Guest_imported]

How will i put it back again, to a one big file...


Thanks....

 

[klasan]

# uncompress x*
# cat xaa xab xac xad xae ... ... .. .. > file.tar

N.b. if your file is 12Gb you need a lot of free space!

 

[Guest_imported]

Will that work for binaries as well?

 

[klasan]

yes