Looking for a backup utility to do the following....

MrZammler

I need to move a large collection of files to dvd-r.

Right now the files are under directory on my hard disk, which is choked with all these files (about ~80G of them). I need to move them to dvd-r's to make some room. The files are scattered unders lots of different dirs, as a result of a crashed partition recovery. I.e.:

/mnt/image/lost+found/123223_12323/....
/mnt/image/lost+found/232323_54656/....
etc..

I need an app that can scan the /mnt/image/lost+found/ dir, create an X number of 4G groups of files which I can then burn to dvd-r. Catch is that I dont have enough space to create the groups at once, so I need it to create the first 4G group (might be scattered files or a compressed archive), burn it to dvd-r, and then continue with the rest.

Does anything like this exist?

Thanks

nephros · Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:16 pm Post subject:

app-backup/dar and its frontend app-backup/kdar should be able to do that.

Note though that because of limitations of the dvd filesystem, it's not easily possible to burn 4G files (e.g. .tar or .dar) to a DVD. Maximum file size on a regular DVD is 2G IIRC.
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sternklang · Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject:

MrZammler · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:27 am Post subject:

Okay, so dar will create an x amount of individual archives? (I.e. I wont need all of the archives to re-create my files) ?

Edit: Checked dar/kdar a bit, it seems it creates .dar archives... I would feel more comfortable with either plain dump of files or a common format archive.

MrZammler · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:44 am Post subject:

It seems that this: http://danborn.net/multicd/ should be able to do what I need.

Thanks.