split large .vbk files
dear spiceworks community,
does anyone know how to split a large .vbk file?
we have to save it on a tape in a hp library, but the file size is 1,8tb and the maximum tape capacity is 1.5tb.

the compression doesn't help, because it is applied after the file has been saved on the tape, which is impossible, because it is too large.

is it possible to split it into multiple files?

thanks in advance.

zeno
i found the solution, if i select another option in the backup configuration settings, it is possible to enable the "split file" option.

thanks again for your help!

zeno
hi hien and welcome to the community.do you take full image backups of your oracle servers (virtual/physical)? in this case please do not use file 2 tape but create machine to tape jobs to directly copy the image backups.you can then arrange your available tapes in media pools and export one of the media sets you’re using.you can configure how long you want to protect data on the tapes until it gets overwritten.from the gui you can use a media set only for one weekbefore switching to the next one.you can also look into gfs media pools and use weeklies (append data to unfinished).you can use powershell however to automate everything around exporting if you like or do that manually. also you can monitor exported tapes in vaults.hope that makes sense. tape handling can be a bit of a fuss.however, you might want to have a look on the scale-out backup repository and capacity tier where you can copy your backups to an object storage repository with immutability and thus you can avoid the tape handling and you can already get an off-site copy of your daily backups.(e.g. 42 days retention, with copy to object storage from day 1, immutability for 42 days,and move to object storage after day 14 will give you 14 days of local backups for fastest restores and the rest online and immutable on the object storage). Hello,
  
Maybe this trick will help you : 

* [https://ccm.net/faq/137-how-to-cut-a-mp3](/faq/137-how-to-cut-a-mp3)
* <https://ccm.net/faq/12341-cut-your-video-or-audio-files-with-realplayer>


  
Best regards start vvvv.exe /o "your\_patch\_here.v4p" /allowmultiple

edit: meh, too late… Out of curiosity, what are the sizes of the files you’re trying to move? it's possible, but you'd likely need to make sure the drive is formatted with a file system your tv understands.

pretty much all of them support fat-32. windows arbitrarily doesn't give an option to use fat-32 when formatting drives / partitions greater than 32gb capacity. microsoft/windows is really just trying to force their proprietary ntfs file system on you, even in situations where fat-32 would work fine. the actual partition size limit of fat-32 is 2tb (2,048 gb), which a third-party formatting utility can do just fine. so that means you'd still basically need to make multiple partitions to use all the capacity of your drive and have a file system that the tv can read. it's possible some tvs may be confused by that, but most would handle it fine.

exfat extends the established fat file system to overcome some of its inherent limitations. for a drive with this capacity, exfat is probably the best file system to use if you want to use the drive with your tv and other non-windows devices. among non-windows devices, it has much better support than ntfs. you can make a single large 8tb partition formatted with the exfat file system and it's very likely your tv will be able to use it. if your tv doesn't work with that, make a 2tb partition and format it with the fat-32 file system. [@assetsoft](/u/assetsoft),

check this xaml, used linq query inside invoke code.

it will return list(of list(of fileinfo)), so you can merger the files by lists

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