Best backup option for spanning CDR's?

[David Kramer]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Jack Coats wrote:

> I believe GNUTAR (even using gzip for compression) will break it's
> archives up into slices of arbitrary size, and kick off a script to
> 'swap media' at then end of each full slice.  Now all you need is
> packet writing software for Linux, and it sounds like you are in
> business!

Not bad, but I would rather not use tar, since it makes it just a little
harder to restore an individual file.  I suppose it would not be that hard
to write my own perl program to parse a recursive ls and break it up
myself.


> Lacking packet writing software, try writing these
slices to /tmp ,
> make the 'swap media' script do a write of the CD, then erase the
> file
> from /tmp and do the next.  Make sure your script does process the
> last piece of the archive.
>
> And when you get it done, let me know, I want to use it ! :):):)

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