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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:21:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=3Ai7xndu+sNVCxLPKD=z8qE5vJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinPvM8-YeNgQOPggL=JvZJvrOMuWw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file
> into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then
> use cat to reassemble?

I think it should work just fine. I've split huge files into huge
chunks and never had any issues.

>   Is there some better way to do this?

I wonder if splitting is even necessary; rsync will analyze the file
and only transmit the differences, right?. So I'd think that even if
the transfer fails, a retry would pick up where it left off (assuming
rsync keeps the failed copy).

Also check out net-misc/unison. It seems to be designed for just this
sort of thing.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-20 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20 15:25 [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary? Mark Knecht
2011-06-20 16:21 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-06-20 16:30   ` Mark Knecht
2011-06-20 17:51     ` Michael Hampicke
2011-06-20 17:48   ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-06-20 18:20     ` Mark Knecht
2011-06-21  7:08   ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona
2011-06-20 19:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Nils Larsson
2011-06-20 19:29   ` Mark Knecht
2011-06-20 20:51 ` Walter Dnes
2011-06-20 21:06   ` Mark Knecht
2011-06-20 21:58     ` Mick
2011-06-20 21:46 ` Indi
2011-06-21  0:28   ` Mark Knecht
2011-06-21 10:41     ` Indi
2011-06-21 15:11     ` Peter Humphrey
2011-06-21 15:20       ` Dale
2011-06-21 15:36       ` Mark Knecht
2011-06-21 17:00         ` Peter Humphrey

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