Intense Red grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Okay, here's a different backup software question. > > The scenario: Call me weird, but I buy plastic CDs and refuse to buy > "electronic" music. I tediously rip my CDs to Ogg files and store them on my > file server. (The CDs go into the basement.) Great, I'm happy. I have 12-15 > GB > of Ogg files. Each Ogg file is stored in a tediously-named subdirectory tree > arranged by "Genre -> Artist -> Album". I want to back up this music > subdirectory tree. > > In the past, I've tarred these files up. That's a pain in the butt because > my backup medium is DVD-Rs. Not only do I have to re-splice the tar files > together after a restore, but the files on the DVDs are not in a usable state > (and other backup programs have taught me to be leery of non-native > filesystems).
Good grief, how often do you need to restore? :-) > So a query: Is there any "copy" program that would logically copy/backup > to > a DVD and use some intelligence to copy/backup the files so that the DVDs get > filled up? > > I'd love to have these files as raw files on a DVD, but I don't want to > wasted DVDs and I'm not going to bother to figure out what files are needed > to > fill up the DVDs. And given the nature of my backups, I only backup every 6 > months or a year, or whenever I go on a CD buying kick (after all, we're not > talking about accounting data here!). > > Does anyone have a suggestion for a "smart copy" program that will > logically copy portions of a subdirectory tree in 4.4GB "chunks"? TIA. I Googled a bit and found a few items on the subject: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1120095/split-files-using-tar-gz-zip-or-bzip2 http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/10/24/tips-from-an-rhce-splitting-tar-archives-on-the-fly/ http://trulymanaged.com/blog/how-to-split-a-large-files-to-multiple-parts-using-tar/ There are others out there as well, but those seem to give a pretty good idea of how to do what you want, assuming I'm reading you right. :-) --Dave
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