[Scottish] End of year BIG archive!

[neil sinclair]

Hi - 
Season's greetings to all :-)

I'm doing a big file archive of my years' work, and I want to span it over 
several CDs.

To date, I have used the command 

tar -czPf /home/archive_file.tar.gz \
big \
file \
list \
which \
spans \
home \
directories \
for \
several \
users

which works fine for me. I save it as a shell script, and run it from time to 
time.

Now I want to expand the file list to include many more directories, and I end 
up with about 4 gig of tar file. Oops!

If I try to use Karchiver to split the file, it bombs out (I'm on SuSE 8.2, 
using Karchver 3.1.1).

The man page for tar doesn't document how to use the -M switch for a 
multivolume archive, so I'd like to ask if anyone has experience of using it, 
and how I can split my archive into 650Mb segments.

No doubt there is an easy way to do what I want, and i tried Karchiver to do 
this, but no success. If there's an easier way,  _please_  tell me how!!!

TIA,

Neil