Thread: how to recursively copy or move part of a directory limited by size?
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Old Jul 6th, 2005, 11:51 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by mackenga
I suggest:
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tar -c music | gzip -9 > backup.tgz
this is simpler
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gzip:
tar czvf backup.tgz music/
bzip:
tar cjvf backup.tgz music/
for the disk size discrimination you can use du and have a script that makes subdirectories up to some size and then do the tar on those directories
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