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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote |
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>> Hi, |
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>> Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file |
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>> into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then |
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>> use cat to reassemble? |
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>> Is there some better way to do this? |
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> That's what split was written for. I can't think of anything better. |
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> BTW, what type of data is the 10 gig file? If it's text, then consider |
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> using zip or bzip2 on each of the fragments before transferring. If |
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> it's an already compressed binary format, then don't waste time |
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> attempting further compression. |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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Hi Walter. |
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It's a Virtualbox VM exported from virtualbox-4.0.8. It consumes about |
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40GB on disk, compressed by Virtualbox to about 10GB by their 'Export |
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Appliance' feature. |
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I actually did try compressing the exported 10GB file with gzip & |
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bzip2 before splitting it. None of those provided any compression. I |
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didn't try the spilt outputs as I figured they are just binary chunks |
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and wouldn't compress either. |
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Thanks for the info. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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