Compressing/backing up with size splits

[JosephK]

On 17:52 Sat 29 Mar     , Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Hi, I want to backup some files to a compressed format and split the
> output files in 4.7G file sizes so as to fit them in 4.7 GB DVDs. Any
> idea on how I can do this easily?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
 
I reckon you need dar 

http://dar.linux.free.fr/

Very like tar but you can specify all sorts of extras such as slices of
a specific size to fit CDs or DVDs

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Regards, Joe