divide a directory into multiple archive files with par

ddaas · 02-26-2005, 01:07 PM

Hi,
I want to divide a directory into a no. of archives with tar.
For example I have a big directory 'mydir'. I want to make 5 archives mydir1.tar, mydir2.tar, ... mydir5.tar from my big directory ‘mydir’.
Eventually I would like to have a text file with the content of every archive (filename and date).

How can I do that? I didn’t find any tar option which could help me.

ddaas

harken · 02-26-2005, 01:52 PM

Take a look here: http://dar.linux.free.fr/. It works great, compression included (.gz or .bz2), encryption, splits the archive into files of different sizes, supports differential backup and more.