On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:50:56 -0500, Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Bryan. I am planning to make my backups to my hard disk and, > > from time to time, I will save them to CDs. However, I fear that a > > backup file may be bigger than the storage capacity of a CD. So, I > > would like to ask whether there exists a way of circumvent this > > difficulty. > > That is fairly easy, make backups the normal way you would to a hard drive. > Then, use an archive program like zip to create an archive of the backup but > tell it to keep the file sizes at 600MB or so and span the archive. That > will create multiple files small enough to fit on CD. Then, you simpy burn > each file to a CD. > > Of course, this takes space on a hd to do and with DVD burners hitting about > $60-80 for dual mode models, I can't see any reason to accept that limitation > when you can spend $100, get a DVD burner with a couple of +RW media and burn > 4.6 gb of files to a single disk. > > And, if you have more than 4.6 gb of data in your home directory, let me be > the first to suggest that you might consider figuring out how much you do or > don't need regularly and archiving some of it to permanent storage.
Good ideas, Bryan. Thanks. Paul
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