What's The Limit

[Kam Leo]

On 12/5/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/5/06, Gene Poole <Gene.Poole at fds.com> wrote:
> > I've got one of my machines off-line so I can do a fresh install of Fedora
> > Core 6.  I needed to save most of the data on the hard drives off to DVD so
> > I can re-partition.  To save space I've done tar gzip on specific branches
> > of my tree that I needed to save. There is one branch in my tree is
> > approximately 12.8 GB in size.  So 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.
> >
> > Using K3b, can I create a ISO image for a dual-layer DVD that contains a
> > file larger than 4GB, then burn that ISO image to DVD?
> >
> > Does anyone know another way?  I can un-tar the file and try to create
> > several tar files that are smaller than 4 GB.  But, shouldn't I be able to
> > process a single file larger than 4 GB?
>
> You could just use split to cut the file in half, and then you'd be
> under the 4GB file limit.
>
>
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> L. Friedman                                    netllama at gmail.com
> LlamaLand                       http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
>

Don't forget: There is only  4.7 GB available on single layer DVD media.

For time and hassle it's easier and faster to buy/build an external
USB hard drive and use it for backup. You can get 200-300 GB external
units for under $100.