[ale] Backup large files to span DVDs

[Pete Hardie]

Yes - the typical is splt into the parts, and use cat to recombine them
into the whole.  use the right flags so that split will number the parts,
and the cat command is easy to wildcard  ('cat foo.[0-9] > foo')

Shades of alt.binaries.pictures


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> I'll need to look into split.  I presume I would just do a split on the
> tar, burn those individual files, and then splice them back together if
> they're needed in the future into the single tar to uncompress?
>
> Double layer won't help, one of the files is 18 GB. :)
>
> On 2015-10-27 08:17, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > Tarball with bzip and split into manageable sizes. Or get a double layer
> > DVD burner :-)
> > On Oct 27, 2015 11:13 AM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> You've looked at "split" already, I presume?
> >>
> >> stack exchange also suggesst 7z as a tool
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ok, Google is failing me today.  I've got some large files (larger than
> >>> 5GB each) that I need to archive to DVD so I'll have to span DVDs.  The
> >>> problem is I can't seem to find the appropriate magic incantations to
> >>> accomplish this.
> >>>
> >>> The file image and burning tools tools available are genisoimage and
> >>> wodim (unfortunately no mkisofs or cdrecord, thanks Debian).
> >>>
> >>> Everything I've found online so far starts wtih the assumption of a
> >>> directory full of small files and to make multiple ISOs from those.
> But
> >>> in this case a single file is bigger than the DVD and there are several
> >>> files (about 40GB worth) to archive.
>
>
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