Backing up to a windows share

BruceC · 08-16-2004, 10:40 AM

I am trying to use tar to backup my linux server to a windows share but as you might guess it quits when the tar file reaches 2GB.
Does anyone have a script that could split up a tar to multiple tar files?

Thanks.

denniz · 08-16-2004, 12:23 PM

Look in the man pages of tar. man tar should take you there. I reckon there's an option to create volumes, and explanation of how to set the sizes of them. The 2 GB size limit is known to me. Horrible when working with large video files. Since you want to get all of your data backed-up, you could also tar some directories (etc, usr, home) and stay under 2 GB. Hope you get there!

BruceC · 08-16-2004, 01:37 PM

-cM makes a multi-volume backup.

linuxlastslonge · 08-16-2004, 02:09 PM

to backup:

Code:

tar -czvf /tmp/backup.tgz /data/location /more/data/location
split -b 2000000000 backup.tgz
cp xa* /mnt/windows_share
rm /tmp/backup.tgz

to restore:

Code:

cp /mnt/windows_share/xa* /tmp
cat /tmp/xa* > /tmp/backup.tgz
tar -xzvf /tmp/backup.tgz

tada!

hope i could help!!!!!!!!!!!!