Re: Back up help

2007-12-21 Thread Andrew Shugg
Sridhar Dhanapalan said: > A major caveat wrt 7zip is that it does not store the owners and groups of > files. I wouldn't use this format if storing correct permissions is of > importance. True; the p7zip man page (man 7z) details how to use tar to do that, in conjunction with p7zip. See the "B

Re: Back up help

2007-12-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Andrew Shugg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to hang on to your originals you can fit them onto smaller > media by creating multi-volume archives (set volume size to around > 4480mb) with a file compression program such as p7zip (you turn file > compression off though

Re: Back up help

2007-12-21 Thread Andrew Shugg
Matthew Rossi said: > Hi. Currently I am in the process of burning my files onto blank dvd-r's as > i will have a new computer arrive in the new year. I have a set of videos > that I dubbed from a miniDV tape using firewire and kino (you need to run > kino in root to capture using firewire). I h

Re: Back up help

2007-12-19 Thread Blindraven
I concur, Mencoder is excellent. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide On Dec 19, 2007 8:52 PM, Matthew Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Currently I am in the process of burning my files onto blank dvd-r's > as i will have a new computer arrive in the new year. I have

Re: Back up help

2007-12-19 Thread Dale
look into mencoder On Dec 19, 2007 8:22 PM, Matthew Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Currently I am in the process of burning my files onto blank dvd-r's as > i will have a new computer arrive in the new year. I have a set of videos > that I dubbed from a miniDV tape using firewire and kin

Back up help

2007-12-19 Thread Matthew Rossi
Hi. Currently I am in the process of burning my files onto blank dvd-r's as i will have a new computer arrive in the new year. I have a set of videos that I dubbed from a miniDV tape using firewire and kino (you need to run kino in root to capture using firewire). I have burnt the first disc, bu