What's The Limit
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Dec 6 02:35:22 UTC 2006
At 8:00 PM -0500 12/5/06, Joe Smith wrote:
>Gene Poole wrote:
>> ... I tar gzipped the tree and it came to
>> about 7.3 GB. So I started burning a dual-layer DVD for this file and
>> that's when I learned that K3b (I use KDE for my desktop) won't copy a file
>> larger than 4 GB.
>> ...
>> Does anyone know another way? ...
>
>There's no law that says the data on a CD or DVD has to be in a
>particular format (iso or udf, e.g.).
>
>At least for CDs, I sometimes just skip making an iso containing only
>one big file (my backup.tar.gz) and just use cdrecord to write the tar
>file to the CD instead of a .iso.
>
>I read them back with something like ``tar -xvzf /dev/cdrom''
>
>I'm no CD/DVD guru, so this may be something really stupid, but so far
>they've all read back just fine. I don't see any reason it wouldn't work
>with a DVD as well.
WFM, CDR and DVD+/-R. I also do it with dump / restore.
>Also, (GNU) tar can create multi-volume archives. Check the -M and -L
>options to create multiple tar file archives of limited size for writing
>to multiple CDs/DVDs.
I do that also, but it pauses when each "tape" is full. It's what I
actually need, but probably not what is wanted here.
I write on each disk the command I used to make it. I should probably also
write the version of the command.
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