Putting 2GB into several CD's

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From: Julio Gonzalez-At
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 00:00

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Hi everyone,
I thought the following problem would be already solved.
But now I'm sort of loosing hope.

I want to backup 2GB data into several CD's. Ideally
ther would be a way for me to

1) Compress the files before writing
2) Split the resulting strucutre into 650MB

I tried using the -L option for the gnu tar
to no avail. This option seems to make sense
only when writing to tapes.

compressing would be easy, I just need to duplicate
the data before writing, but I don't know
how to split the data into chunks in order to
use mkisofs. Maybe I'll need to write my
own script ?

thanks all of you

Julio

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there is nothing which cannot be understood."
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From: Julio Gonzalez-At <julio@thalamus.med.upenn.edu>
Subject: Putting 2GB into several CD's
Date: 2000/08/07
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