RE: Breaking Up Tables

[Gary W. Smith]

> I have an unusual problem. My current production server's OS is
corrupt
> and I'm building a new one. However, due to the corruption, I can't
> move files out of it. I have a "back door" through Zope, but I can
only
> move files of a certain size (I don't know how large ;). I need to
back
> up a certain database. All the "weight" of the database is in one
> table. Doing a mysqldump of that table results in a file too big to
> transfer. Is there a way to break up that table, do various dumps, and
> then reassemble it?

Sure, there a couple utilities for splitting and reassembling large
files.

Try doing a google for "man split" and "man join".