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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compress a tar file to smaller size Post 302887593 by Shaibal_bp on Sunday 9th of February 2014 08:58:22 AM
Old 02-09-2014
Question [Solved] Compress a tar file to smaller size
I have a tar file with name DTT012_GP_20140207.tar and many more with different names of different sizes ranging from 1GB to 4GB.
Now my requirement is to extract/not extract these files and then divide it into various parts of size 500MB and save it with different names and then compress it(zip/tar).
(If 1GB tar file, it should divide into 2 500MB,
If 1.6GB file, it should divide into 2 500MB and the remanning 100MB into another)

I have tried this
Code:
split -b 500000000 DTT012_GP_20140207.tar /tmp/newdata/DTT012_GP_20140207_part.tar

The output files generated come with name DTT012_GP_20140207_part.tara , DTT012_GP_20140207_part.tarb , DTT012_GP_20140207_part.tarc

Please let me know if I am doing it right and also how do i name it in increasing order as part1,part2,part3??
Last edited by bartus11; 02-09-2014 at 10:05 AM.. Reason: Please use [code][/code] tags.
 

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gpodder-backup

GPODDER-BACKUP(1)						   User Commands						 GPODDER-BACKUP(1)

NAME

       gpodder-backup - Backup and restore utility for gPodder user data

SYNOPSIS

       gpodder-backup [--create|--extract] <archive.gpo.tar.gz> [options] gpodder-backup --purge

DESCRIPTION

       This utility can be used to create a dump of the current gPodder data (configuration files + downloads), optionally replacing the real con-
       tents of the download folder with zero-byte files (for submitting your data to a bug report without having to transfer lots of data).

OPTIONS

       --version
	      show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -c <FILE>, --create=<FILE>
	      Create a new archive

       -x <FILE>, --extract=<FILE>
	      Extract an existing archive

       -f, --fake-downloads
	      Store downloads as zero-byte files in backup

       -n, --no-covers
	      Do not include cover files in archive

       -D <DIR>, --destination=<DIR>
	      Extract downloads in different folder

       -P, --purge
	      Remove current data (can be combined with --extract)

USAGE FOR BUG REPORTING

       This command is useful if you want to report a bug in gPodder:

       gpodder-backup --create bug123.gpo.tar.gz --fake-downloads
	      Backup your current data to file bug123.gpo.tar.gz, but don't store download data (create zero-size dummy files  instead).  You  can
	      then attach bug123.gpo.tar.gz to the bug report.

       If you are instructed to try gPodder from a "clean state", you can use the following command (be sure to backup your data before!):

       gpodder-backup --purge
	      Remove all gPodder data, so you can start from a clean state

EXAMPLES

       gpodder-backup --create today.gpo.tar.gz
	      Backup your current data to file today.gpo.tar.gz

       gpodder-backup --extract mybackup.gpo.tar.gz
	      Restore (without purging) the contents of mybackup.gpo.tar.gz

       gpodder-backup --extract default.gpo.tar.gz --purge
	      Remove current data, then restore the contents of default.gpo.tar.gz

       gpodder-backup --purge
	      Remove all gPodder data, so you can start from a clean state

EXTRACTING FAKED DOWNLOADS

       Please  note  that  any	existing  downloads will be overwritten with zero-byte files when using the --extract option of the gpodder-backup
       utility with a backup created with --fake-downloads

AUTHOR

       gpodder-backup was written by Thomas Perl (thp@gpodder.org)

gpodder-backup 1.0						   December 2010						 GPODDER-BACKUP(1)
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