splittar 0.2 review

splittar allows you to create one or more tar files from a set of data where each of the generated tar files is less than a specified

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 9K Developer: Chris AtLee

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splittar allows you to create one or more tar files from a set of data where each of the generated tar files is less than a specified maximum size.

Each tar file is a proper, self-contained tar file. Other methods of backing up data to removable media requires a tar file to be split, making one of the tar file useless without the others.

splittar software was written to back up large amounts of data that span multiple DVDs while allowing for each DVD to be useful on its own.

Requirements:
Python 2.4

Installation:

If you downloaded the .tar.gz version, running setup.py install should do the trick, although this won't install man pages.

If you downloaded the .deb version, then running dpkg -i splittar_0.1_all.deb should work

Usage:

An example is probably the best way to get started.

splittar -f outputfile.tar.gz -m CD $HOME

This will create files called outputfile-1.tar.gz, outputfile-2.tar.gz, etc., each at most 700 MB in size, from the files in $HOME.

What's New in This Release:
A few minor bugs related to permissions and parsing of commandline options were fixed.
Several new command line options were added (--version, logging options, ratio weight options).
The manpage documentation was greatly improved.
The algorithm that determines which source file should go in which archive was also improved and optimized.
The archive files should have more consistent sizes now.