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breakup image file to span 2 dvd's

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I would like to split up my image file into 2 pieces and archive them onto a couple of Blu-Ray disks. Can anyone suggest how and what program to use to do this? The only thing that comes to mind would be something like using a zip program. I remember back in the old days using Pkzip and spanning several floppies.

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Matt

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Matt:

The program itself will allow you to do this. Instructions are in the TI 2011 User Guide, on page 63, section 3.11.5, under "Backup Splitting". There is a link to the user guide on the left side of the forum pages under "Useful Links".

sorry I guess I didn't clearly say that the images I want to split up have already been created and sitting on a hard drive.

Hi Mark, I see the ARRL logo. N9NPP on this end. Back to spanning yes I know you can do that when the file is being created but i have a lot of images that were created in one large file some are 40 - 60 gig. Those are the ones I want to split up. I just get paranoid playing god with these files it so easy to screw one up.

Matt
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Hi, Matt:

You would then have to use a file-splitting utility to break your large .tib file into smaller pieces. I haven't used any of these personally, but if you search for "file splitting" on Bing or Google you'll turn up a number of utilities that can do this.

Once split, you'll need to recombine the files before using them with TrueImage. To test you could download a file splitting utility, use it to split one of your backup files into pieces, then recombine the pieces again using the utility. After doing this, verify the resultant archive file with TrueImage to prove that it all got put back together again.

Going forward, if you use TrueImage native file splitting, all you need to do is to copy the splits to the same disk and TI will find and use them all during a recovery operation. If you leave the splits on optical media then you'll have to be prepared to shuffle Blu-Ray disks endlessly as the restore is taking place. With two disks it might not be so bad.

Hope this helps...