splitting a tar file

[Doooh Head]

Hi All,

Every once in a while I like to backup all of my pictures on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine.
I like to keep this process very simple, so all I have been doing is creating a .tar file of the pictures folder then copying it to a data dvd.  Recently the size of the .tar became larger than the capacity of the dvd.  So my question is, is there a way that I can split the .tar file into multiple files that have a max size that equals the capacity of a blank dvd so that I can copy them to more than one dvd's?

I'm not interested in any backup programs, or scripts to make it easier to do.  I like to keep it simple.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Doooh Head
 		 	   		  
_________________________________________________________________
Ready. Set. Get a great deal on Windows 7. See fantastic deals on Windows 7 now
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9691818
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/attachments/20091105/d2f42079/attachment.html>