Burning backup to dvd

[Paul Howarth]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> I think the use of growisofs, letting it collect the files, might still 
> be the best way.  I've burnt iso's of nearly 3 GB (generated and burnt 
> with k3b) so I know it will go past the magic 2GB point that used to 
> break all file systems, but have not attempted to make or burn one that 
> might go past the 4GB point (given 1024 byte kilobytes) which is a hair 
> more than 4.3GB in decimal sizes.

I regularly burn DVDs containing 8x 585MB (557.9MiB) files produced by 
my backup software using growisofs. That's a total of nearly 4.5GiB. No 
issues with DVD-R media.

Paul.