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

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:

> 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).

I believe that is the --partial option.

allan