On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtu...@vianet.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: > > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > > The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to > > put files on multiple dvds. > > My k3b works great - but i can not feed it a directory of files and ask > it > > just copy all the files and ask me for a new dvd when you need it. > > > > My multicd gives error : > > I've never heard of multicd so I can't comment on its errors. > > Personally, I'd tar up the big directory, zip it (or bzip2 it, > whatever), then pipe it through split, telling split to split it into > sizes appropriate to your DVD media. > > The trick, of course, is restore since ideally you'd copy all the pieces > to some place, cat them together into the origional .tgz and then untar > it. > > I haven't tried tar's multi-volume option. I don't know if it would > work if you tried writing out directly from tar to the raw dvd burner. > > Have you considered a tape drive? > > Doug. > Thanks for the feedback - I was looking to store them as is. I got a lot of dvds so i was hoping on creating some kind of table of contents. And i do not wnat to go through the trouble of untaring each one to get at the data. I would like to store them as is. I just do want a utility that will figure out what combo of files are best and then just burn them...all the utility does is ask me for the next disk. thanks mjh
