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Topic: backup for downloads, splitters and second drives

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lovdsl

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Posted: Feb. 25 2006,01:34

I am at the point where I require backup for the downloaded .dsl extensions..on an old machine I would usually split larger files and save to floppy..or save to second hd that would be accessable after reinstall...
1 - Does dsl have a splitter/joiner. if so where ,how to use
2 - if no dsl can one be added such as xjsplit.tar.gz via mydsl or how to
3 - how do I add a second master hdc on IDE2 on dsl to store for reinstall...when I installed dsl it gave an error for hdc so I removed it..can not remember the error..seen drive and size then..no something.. thought it was a controller error and that dsl only had one was easier at the time to remove..split may be better befor I play with that..thanks for any input..

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 25 2006,06:47

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/split.1.html

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/cat.1.html

Both are part of DSL.

lovdsl

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Posted: Feb. 25 2006,10:27

Ok..thanks very much...I understand there is some kind of file splitting thing built in...but the help file is well..what it is...I saved the text from the first link to a file called dslsplit to the home directory in a directory called Inbox...I opened the manager and said directory and clicked on the file dslsplit..which is 1440bytes...in the box below I type...split -b 720 /home/Inbox/dslsplit...i now see two additional files each 720 xaa and xab...I can not for the life in me join them back together and I am unsure they are even the text file I wanted ti split...and what if I wanted a large file in 5 pieces..just divide by five what about decimals..Is it too much to ask..I do not find this self explanitory should I just give it up...I'm so close.bohoho

lovdsl

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Posted: Feb. 26 2006,01:58

Ok guess to much..will reinstall and redownload all the adds one more time..

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 26 2006,21:20

Here is a better explanation. Examples sometimes say more than a one thousand word user manual:

split -b 720 /home/Inbox/dslsplit outputname.

will give you:

outputname.aa
outputname.ab

to rejoin them:

cat outputname.aa outputname.ab > newfile

or you can simplify the join with a wildcard:

cat outputname.* > newfile

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