Re: Backing up data to span multiple CDs K3B 0.11.23 cd-record 1.2? Fedora 4 kernel 2.6.12 – reposted from September

[John Summerfied]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Clive at Rational wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>   Is it possible to use K3B to back up data that is
>> over 700MB in size so that it spans multiple backup
>> CDs? I remember zip used to be able to span backups
>> across multiple floppy disks.
> 
> 
> Umm, PKZIP can do that. If that's what you really
> want, then you can try running DOSBOX or DOSEMU.
> 
> Another possibility is zip + zipsplit.
> 
> Mike

Come to think of it, tar an other archive utilities can do it: you need 
to specify the size of the "tape volume" and maybe use a script to do 
stuff with the files it creates it.

It doesn't (or didn't when I looked years ago) hand compressed output 
well as the size you provide relates to input sizes.

afio (not a standard component) is better as it can create compresses 
archives sized on the output size.



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