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Create multiple zip files

Bruin

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March 17, 2022 at 2:26 pm
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I have found many examples how to zip ziles, but is there native to P/S how to create multiple zip files based upon a parm to split them based upon given filesize?
I have a large backup file .bak that I would like to split into x files as based upon a parm of filesz. If I set filesz to 100mb it creates x zip files of 100mb based upon what size of the .bak file.
Thanks.

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March 18, 2022 at 4:52 pm
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Try this. Please mark as answered if this does the trick.
```
ls "c:\temp\bigfile*chunk*.zip" | Expand-Archive -force -destinationpath c:\temp
cmd /c copy /b "c:\temp\bigfile*chunk" "c:\temp\bigfile.exe"
```

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ReluctantPhilosopher Valued Member Points: 70 More actions · Answer 1

Try this. Splits files, then zips each one.

$from = "C:\temp\bigfile.exe"
$rootName = "C:\temp\bigfile"
$ext = "chunk"
$upperBound = 500KB


$fromFile = [io.file]::OpenRead($from)
$buff = new-object byte[] $upperBound
$count = $idx = 0
try {
    do {
        "Reading $upperBound"
        $count = $fromFile.Read($buff, 0, $buff.Length)
        if ($count -gt 0) {
            $to = "{0}.{1}.{2}" -f ($rootName, $idx, $ext)
            $toFile = [io.file]::OpenWrite($to)
            try {
                "Writing $count to $to"
                $tofile.Write($buff, 0, $count)
            } finally {
                $tofile.Close()
compress-archive $to "$to.zip"
            }
        }
        $idx ++
    } while ($count -gt 0)
}
finally {
    $fromFile.Close()
}

ZZartin SSC-Dedicated Points: 30894 More actions · Answer 2

I don't believe windows will do split zip files natively so you would need to download some other program to do it. 7-zip does have a command line so that might work.

Bruin SSCrazy Points: 2010 More actions · Answer 3

Cool.

That worked perfect to do split is there away then to using the chunk file to recreate the original file I zipped.

Bruin SSCrazy Points: 2010 More actions · Answer 4

I want to get rid of the BIG file I'm trying to ZIP but need to make sure I can recreate from the multiple Chunk files created..

Thx.

Bruin SSCrazy Points: 2010 More actions · Answer 5

Bruin

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March 18, 2022 at 4:59 pm

#4001993

Perfect Thanks!!!!

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 6

Bruin wrote:

I have found many examples how to zip ziles, but is there native to P/S how to create multiple zip files based upon a parm to split them based upon given filesize?
I have a large backup file .bak that I would like to split into x files as based upon a parm of filesz. If I set filesz to 100mb it creates x zip files of 100mb based upon what size of the .bak file.
Thanks.

What is it that you're actually trying to do... email a large .bak to someone or something? If that's true, why not just copy it to somewhere where other people can simply download it. GitHub, for example.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 7

Bruin wrote:

I have found many examples how to zip ziles, but is there native to P/S how to create multiple zip files based upon a parm to split them based upon given filesize?
I have a large backup file .bak that I would like to split into x files as based upon a parm of filesz. If I set filesz to 100mb it creates x zip files of 100mb based upon what size of the .bak file.
Thanks.

Quick questions, what version and edition of SQL Server are you using? Is this a backup file? If so, why don't you simply use backup compression (gzip algo) and multiple destination files, produces almost the same result?

😎

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 8

Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:

Bruin wrote:
I have found many examples how to zip ziles, but is there native to P/S how to create multiple zip files based upon a parm to split them based upon given filesize?
I have a large backup file .bak that I would like to split into x files as based upon a parm of filesz. If I set filesz to 100mb it creates x zip files of 100mb based upon what size of the .bak file.
Thanks.
Quick questions, what version and edition of SQL Server are you using? Is this a backup file? If so, why don't you simply use backup compression (gzip algo) and multiple destination files, produces almost the same result?
😎

I was thinking in a similar fashion until I saw the 100MB limit per file. That smacks of someone trying to send a database via multiple emails. I don't have what are consider to be really big databases but I do have tables with NCI's that would take 650 of those size files.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Bruin SSCrazy Points: 2010 More actions · Answer 9

It was to transfer files across network to backup storage location. I was weighing impact of doing the compression in the SQL backup versus a script..

Thx.