splitting a tar file

[R. Wood]

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Allegedly, on Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:06:59AM -0400, Doooh Head stated:
> 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

Hi,

man split

HTH,
R.
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