Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.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.