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Split tar files and cat them together again.
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You can use split for this:
tar czpvf - /path/to/archive | split -d -b 100M - tardisk
This tells tar to send the data to stdout, and split to pick it from stdin - additionally using a numeric prefix (`-d`), a chunk size (`-b`) of 100M and using 'disk' as the base for the resulting filenames (tardisk00, tardisk01, etc.).
To extract the data afterwards you can use this:
cat tardisk* | tar xzpvf -
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