winrar command line command making an archive and splitting...
rar a yourbigrarfile.rar -ri1 -mt2 -v512000 -m5
= cool rar split into 500 meg chunks at lowest cpu usage and highest compression (COOL HUH!!)
Below is my command line that I came up with. rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
I will explain it in full detail: rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
a = add files to archive, that really speaks for itself I think. we are going to add files to an archive.
rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar = this is the name of the archive we are going to create.
rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
-ri1 = this gives the archive process a priority of 1 which is the lowest, this way archiving will not degrade the performance of the server to much.
rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
-mt2 = Multithreaded: If you have a multithreaded cpu then with this command you give both threads work.
rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
-ag[yyyy-mm-dd] = here you give the archive a name with [2007-11-22] attached to it.
rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
-rv10 = This is for me the most important option: this switch create recovery volumes called REV files the number indicates how many REV will be made.
rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
-v51200 = here we specify the maximum size of a rar archive (we are creating an archive that will span a number of archives. The number 51200 is chose because it will show as 50.000 KB nicely in explorer (1024x50)
rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
-m5 = This is how you specify the compression level 5 is maximum compression 0 is just store no compression at all.
rar a d:asr-budoneasr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:asr-bu*.bkf
d:asr-bu*.bkf = here we specify what to store in the Archive we create. My ASR backup is stored at this location, I use also a date in my naming of ASR's so I must use a wildcard here.
All of this results in the following set of rar files
RAR 3.70 Copyright (c) 1993-2007 Alexander Roshal 22 May 2007 Shareware version Type RAR -? for help
Usage: rar - - <@listfiles...>
a Add files to archive c Add archive comment cf Add files comment ch Change archive parameters cw Write archive comment to file d Delete files from archive e Extract files to current directory f Freshen files in archive i[par]= Find string in archives k Lock archive l[t,b] List archive [technical, bare] m[f] Move to archive [files only] p Print file to stdout r Repair archive rc Reconstruct missing volumes rn Rename archived files rr[N] Add data recovery record rv[N] Create recovery volumes s[name|-] Convert archive to or from SFX t Test archive files u Update files in archive v[t,b] Verbosely list archive [technical,bare] x Extract files with full path
- Stop switches scanning ac Clear Archive attribute after compression or extraction ad Append archive name to destination path ag[format] Generate archive name using the current date ao Add files with Archive attribute set ap Set path inside archive as Synchronize archive contents av Put authenticity verification (registered versions only) av- Disable authenticity verification check c- Disable comments show cfg- Disable read configuration cl Convert names to lower case cu Convert names to upper case df Delete files after archiving dh Open shared files ds Disable name sort for solid archive e[+] Set file exclude and include attributes ed Do not add empty directories en Do not put 'end of archive' block ep Exclude paths from names ep1 Exclude base directory from names ep2 Expand paths to full ep3 Expand paths to full including the drive letter f Freshen files hp[password] Encrypt both file data and headers id[c,d,p,q] Disable messages ieml[addr] Send archive by email ierr Send all messages to stderr ilog[name] Log errors to file (registered versions only) inul Disable all messages ioff Turn PC off after completing an operation isnd Enable sound k Lock archive kb Keep broken extracted files m<0..5> Set compression level (0-store...3-default...5-maximal) mc Set advanced compression parameters md Dictionary size in KB (64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 or A-G) ms[ext;ext] Specify file types to store mt Set the number of threads n Include only specified file n@ Read file names to include from stdin n@ Include files in specified list file o+ Overwrite existing files o- Do not overwrite existing files oc Set NTFS Compressed attribute or Rename files automatically os Save NTFS streams ow Save or restore file owner and group p[password] Set password p- Do not query password r Recurse subdirectories r0 Recurse subdirectories for wildcard names only ri
[:] Set priority (0-default,1-min..15-max) and sleep time in ms rr[N] Add data recovery record rv[N] Create recovery volumes s[,v[-],e] Create solid archive s- Disable solid archiving sc[obj] Specify the character set sfx[name] Create SFX archive si[name] Read data from standard input (stdin) sl Process files with size less than specified sm Process files with size more than specified t Test files after archiving ta Process files modified after in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format tb Process files modified before in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format tk Keep original archive time tl Set archive time to latest file tn
