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* New upstream release.
* Remove references to user manual PDF (no longer shipped).
* Update debian/copyright based on new upstream CREDITS.
* Bump standards version to 3.8.1 (no packaging changes).
* Bump debhelper compatibility to 7, per linitian recommendation.
* Declare a dependency on debhelper (>= 7.0.1) to match compatibility.
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Split Extension</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.71.0"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Cedar Backup Software Manual"><link rel="up" href="ch06.html" title="Chapter�6.�Official Extensions"><link rel="prev" href="ch06s06.html" title="Encrypt Extension"><link rel="next" href="ch06s08.html" title="Capacity Extension"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Split Extension</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch06s06.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter�6.�Official Extensions</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="ch06s08.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="cedar-extensions-split"></a>Split Extension</h2></div></div></div><p>
 
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Split Extension</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Cedar Backup Software Manual"><link rel="up" href="ch06.html" title="Chapter�6.�Official Extensions"><link rel="prev" href="ch06s06.html" title="Encrypt Extension"><link rel="next" href="ch06s08.html" title="Capacity Extension"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Split Extension</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch06s06.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter�6.�Official Extensions</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="ch06s08.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="cedar-extensions-split"></a>Split Extension</h2></div></div></div><p>
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         The Split Extension is a Cedar Backup extension used to split up
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         large files within staging directories.  It is probably only useful
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         in combination with the <span><strong class="command">cback-span</strong></span> command, which
 
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         in combination with the <span class="command"><strong>cback-span</strong></span> command, which
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         requires individual files within staging directories to each be
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         smaller than a single disc.
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      </p><p>
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         You would normally run this action immediately after the standard
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         stage action, but you could also choose to run it by hand immediately
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         before running <span><strong class="command">cback-span</strong></span>.
 
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         before running <span class="command"><strong>cback-span</strong></span>.
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      </p><p>
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         The split extension uses the standard UNIX <span><strong class="command">split</strong></span>
 
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         The split extension uses the standard UNIX <span class="command"><strong>split</strong></span>
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         tool to split the large files up.  This tool simply splits the files
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         on bite-size boundaries.  It has no knowledge of file formats.  
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      </p><p>
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         original large file, you must have every file that the original file
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         was split into.</em></span>  Think carefully about whether this is what
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         you want.  It doesn't sound like a huge limitation.  However,
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         <span><strong class="command">cback-span</strong></span> might put an indivdual file on
 
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         <span class="command"><strong>cback-span</strong></span> might put an indivdual file on
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         <span class="emphasis"><em>any</em></span> disc in a set &#8212; the files split from
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         one larger file will not necessarily be together.  That means you will
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         probably need every disc in your backup set in order to recover any