[ale] 26G to backup

[Fred Dinkler IV]

Hi,

I like for the splitting up and preserving attributes, I like using tar.
just burning the raw tar to the disk works great, the flags for
everything are built into tar, it was designed with multiple tapes in
mind that translates well enough into multiple files of a fixxed size
that you can raw-burn. tar is also just fine with reading from the disks
one at a time like it was a tape.

On 12/30/2011 04:19 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I have 26G of data I want to archive and backup up.  I would want to do
> this on DVDs.
> 
> I can spend a hour or so creating a perl script that will create ISOs at
> 4.4GB each, but I'm thinking this problem has been solved with a better
> script (mine not written) or some OSS software project.  I like ISO9660
> with Rockridge and Joilet, but I also like to burn some DVDs as ext2 to
> preserve all attributes (permissions, owership, etc).
> 
> I'm looking for some pointers on the best way to accomplish this.  Of
> course I could tar it all up and use split. That would require me to
> re-assemble the data when I need to chase down one file.
> 
> I also want to archive 100G.  
> 
> I plan on purchasing a 1T USB drive to be total storage of this data,
> but I do not trust that as a primary store.
> 
> One prime problem is my ~/mail imap directory.  I've copied it off and
> am now using empty imap boxes.  That directory is 6G in size and will
> not fit on a signal DVD.  I've thought about using mksquashfs and then
> burning the squash as the DVD (would not mount in Winders).  My concern
> here is that future squashfs versions would render my data unreadable.
> 
> All this data will be archived on 2 sets of DVDs.  One set will be in my
> office and the second set in an offsite location inside of a safe.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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