Compressing/backing up with size splits

[Ioannis Vranos]

JosephK wrote:
> 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


I installed package p7zip-full which is a Unix port of 7-zip. It
provides an option:


"-v{Size}[b|k|m|g]
              Create volumes"


I hoped for a more GUI method though.