Gene Poole wrote:
... I tar gzipped the tree and it came to
about 7.3 GB. So I started burning a dual-layer DVD for this file and
that's when I learned that K3b (I use KDE for my desktop) won't copy a file
larger than 4 GB.
...
Does anyone know another way? ...
There's no law that says the data on a CD or DVD has to be in a
particular format (iso or udf, e.g.).
At least for CDs, I sometimes just skip making an iso containing only
one big file (my backup.tar.gz) and just use cdrecord to write the tar
file to the CD instead of a .iso.
I read them back with something like ``tar -xvzf /dev/cdrom''
I'm no CD/DVD guru, so this may be something really stupid, but so far
they've all read back just fine. I don't see any reason it wouldn't work
with a DVD as well.
Also, (GNU) tar can create multi-volume archives. Check the -M and -L
options to create multiple tar file archives of limited size for writing
to multiple CDs/DVDs.
<Joe
