Patrick Doyle wrote:
Patrick Doyle <wpdster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a 6.5 Gbyte tarball that I want to archive on a dual layer DVD.
Unfortunately, I don't have a dual-layer writer on my PC, however, I
do have access to another (Windows) PC that _does_ have a dual-layer
writer.
Don't know if this helps, but... A friend of mine suggests that you
use Win
RAR instead of a tarball and have it split the volume, then you can
save it
on a single layer DVD.
Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, the image I wish to back
up is the former contents of a 20 Gbyte reiserfs partition (of which
15 Gbytes were used). I don't believe that Win RAR will support
reading a Linux reiserfs partition, nor do I expect it will handle
things like symbolic links, device nodes, etc... But I'll check it
out nonetheless.
--wpd
Then use Linux RAR to split the *.tar file.
I got my copy from DRIES for FC4.
rar-3.5.1-1.2.fc4.rf
You could also create par2 files for recovery if you need to ensure that
this data is saved.
par2cmdline-0.4-10.fc4
--
Robin Laing
