On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Rich<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Gus Wirth<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 08/30/2009 12:01 PM, Rich wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to back up some data files that are total over 4.7G of a DVD. >>> Using file manger and CD/DVD writer, I can do it, but it's a pain when it >>> complains that the device isn't large enough for all the data I want to >>> save. > >> Do you need to be able to access the files on each of the discs or is it OK >> if you need to reassemble everything first? > > Unfortunately, yes, I want to be able to just copy the files from the > DVDs directly, and even if not as efficient use of the DVDs, would > rather directories were either complete, or in some intuitive order on > sequential discs. But the latter isn't imperative.
After reading 4 messages in this thread, I finally realized that I had faced the same problem and found a solution at the time. I used scdbackup for something like this. A few years ago I backed up all of the stored .ISO files on the 120GB disk drive that was part of KPLUG's Pandora distribution system. The program makes up combinations of files to fit on a DVD, and stores index information so that you never have to read more than two discs to find the one you want. http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html As I remember, there was some learning curve to overcome, partly because the English-language documentation was written by a German speaker. But I did manage to get through the creation of 20 or more DVDs that have never been looked at again. :-) carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [email protected] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
