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Scenario:

We have a compressed sql dump with a size of 10 Gb and we need to upload into free storage limited by 1Go each upload.

SOURCE:

dump.tar (or any other folder, tar, file, directory, etc)

TARGET:

dump_sql.tar. (will be suffixed by each part id)

SPLITTED FILE SIZE:

1Gb / 1000MB

SPLIT COMMAND:

tar cvzf - dump.tar | split --bytes=1000MB - dump_sql.tar.

JOIN COMMAND:

cat dump_sql.tar.* > dump.tar

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