[ale] Backup large files to span DVDs

[Justin Goldberg]

Include par2 parity data. It can repair damaged archives when the media is
scratched. Or it was state of the art ten years ago. Its also used on
Usenet binary posts.

Justin
On Oct 27, 2015 11:06 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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