[quick] trying to split a large file but linux says it's to large
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[quick] trying to split a large file but linux says it's to large
hi i'm trying to move servers and move all my data to the other server to i archived it up and it's a 90GB file but when i try to split it with a program like lxsplit i get the below error:
I once backed up my /home directory before installing SuSE 10.3. The resultant file would too large (30-40GB) for the vfat external drive I was backing up to. So I piped the output of tar through split and saved the slices on the external drive.
To restore, I mounted the drive, used cat and piped the output to the tar command. I didn't have to join the file first. I also used par2 to create parity files to enable the recovery of a damaged slice.
The examples near the end of the tar command has an example of moving a large directory using the -C option or a subshell on the right hand side of the pipe.
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