Using 7zip to archive a directory

By gill, 13 May, 2015

Here is the 7zip command I use to create a series of 7z files to archive a directory tree. To archive /home/user/foo into 650MB files named foo.7z* in /var/tmp:
7za a -t7z -v650m /var/tmp/foo.7z /home/user/foo -mx5 -mmt
That's all!

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