Okay, here's a different backup software question. The scenario: Call me weird, but I buy plastic CDs and refuse to buy "electronic" music. I tediously rip my CDs to Ogg files and store them on my file server. (The CDs go into the basement.) Great, I'm happy. I have 12-15 GB of Ogg files. Each Ogg file is stored in a tediously-named subdirectory tree arranged by "Genre -> Artist -> Album". I want to back up this music subdirectory tree.
In the past, I've tarred these files up. That's a pain in the butt because my backup medium is DVD-Rs. Not only do I have to re-splice the tar files together after a restore, but the files on the DVDs are not in a usable state (and other backup programs have taught me to be leery of non-native filesystems). So a query: Is there any "copy" program that would logically copy/backup to a DVD and use some intelligence to copy/backup the files so that the DVDs get filled up? I'd love to have these files as raw files on a DVD, but I don't want to wasted DVDs and I'm not going to bother to figure out what files are needed to fill up the DVDs. And given the nature of my backups, I only backup every 6 months or a year, or whenever I go on a CD buying kick (after all, we're not talking about accounting data here!). Does anyone have a suggestion for a "smart copy" program that will logically copy portions of a subdirectory tree in 4.4GB "chunks"? TIA. -- "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201307112354.04273.intns...@golgotha.net
