On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 02:25 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 23:45 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I need to back up 20 GB of Windows data from a hard drive onto DVDs so > > that a Windows user can access it. I can read the Windows hard drive > > just fine. > > > > What software might I use to automagically split the data into DVD sized > > chunks and write it to a DVD ? > > > > It would be nice if it didn't put half of one dir on one DVD and the > > second half on another. I know this will happen with any dir that is > > larger than a DVD, but it would be nice if it didn't do that for the > > rest. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/discspan/ > > The just-released 0.2.0 version still has a couple of bugs. The --test > option does not prevent disc burning. You may also have to > edit /etc/discspan.ini to reduce the max size spec for a DVD blank by > 10-12M to prevent overflows. I've learned that not all DVD-Rs are the > same size. All DVD+Rs appear to be, and should burn faster. > > Hope this helps. It does. Thanks for the tip. I've downloaded it and it runs. I'll use it to write my discs tonight and report back. LG -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
