Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: limittar
Version: 1.0.3
Summary: Limiting the size of tar archives
Home-page: https://github.com/2sh/limittar
Author: Seán Hewitt
Author-email: contact@2sh.me
License: UNKNOWN
Description: # LimitTar
        This application/library is for limiting the size of a tar archive for spanning
        data directly across multiple Blu-Ray/DVD discs, flash drives or as files on
        online storage with file size limits. It tries to fit as many files as possible
        into a tar archive without creating partial files. This means each tar archive
        can be restored independently without joining.
        
        This application was mainly developed to be used with
        [aes-pipe](https://github.com/2sh/aes-pipe) for space efficient data
        encryption using pipes to remove the need for temporarily storing the
        potentially large archives and encrypted data.
        
        ## Requirements
        * Python 3.4+
        
        ## Installation
        From the Python Package Index:
        ```
        pip install limittar
        ```
        
        Or download and run:
        ```
        python3 setup.py install
        ```
        
        ## Command-Line Usage
        Use the ```-h``` argument for help:
        ```
        limittar -h
        ```
        
        ### Spanning files in tar archives across multiple USB storage devices
        ```
        find /path/photos/ -print0 > files
        
        limittar -0 -i files -l remaining1 -s 16g > /dev/sdX
        limittar -0 -i remaining1 -l remaining2 -s 20g > /dev/sdX
        cat remaining2 | limittar -0 -l remaining3 -s 16g > /dev/sdX
        ...
        ```
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Archiving
Requires-Python: >=3.4
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