At 8:00 PM -0500 12/5/06, Joe Smith wrote: >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. WFM, CDR and DVD+/-R. I also do it with dump / restore. >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. I do that also, but it pauses when each "tape" is full. It's what I actually need, but probably not what is wanted here. I write on each disk the command I used to make it. I should probably also write the version of the command. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
