2y ago

7zip: If I have a full 10TB HDD, and I want to backup it all to 2 older 4TB HDDs as archive parts

How do I do that? Is it possible to tell 7zip that it should save the first part(s) to the first hdd, and then continue with other part(s) on the second? Without giving errors that it ran out of space on the first one?

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Unless your 10TB is text, there's no way you're going to get 20% compression to fit 8TB.
Have you weeded out or linked any duplicate files first? Might save you some room.
Have you weeded out or linked any duplicate files first? Might save you some room.
I'd STRONGLY suggest not to mess with TB sized archives or archive parts. Put the smaller drives together with mergerfs (use a rclone union remote if on one OS that doesn't do mergerfs) and then copy there everything you want. If you think not all will make it enable file system compression if you think the files will compress, if not exclude some directories you might not really need to back up.
You could use tar to do that, and it's built into Windows nowadays (if you aren't on a unix-like system (mac, linux, etc.)).
Here is a website with more information: https://www.thewebhelp.com/linux/creating-multivolume-tar-files/ Or something like this would also work, but it requires the split command which I don't think is available on Windows: https://superuser.com/a/290990