Putting 2GB into several CD's

Thread View: comp.os.linux.misc

3 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

3 total messages Started by Julio Gonzalez-At Mon, 07 Aug 2000 00:00

#1024

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

28 lines
1442 bytes

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

--
"In the world, there are only matters which have not been understood,
there is nothing which cannot be understood."
                    Qigong Phenomena booklet

Re: Putting 2GB into several CD's

#1025

Author: Dirk Reckmann
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 00:00

46 lines
2014 bytes

Julio Gonzalez-At <julio@thalamus.med.upenn.edu> wrote:

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

This looks like you could need it:

- - - - - - from comp.os.linux.announce - - - - - -

Hi,   August 2, 2000

This is a file partitioner program.  It lets you split a file
into pieces and combine pieces back into 1.  It was rated a top
10 shareware program in a Japanese OS/2 magazine.

This program was originally written for OS/2.  I brought it
with me to Linux a little while ago but have not had time to
continue with it yet.  I thought I would put it out there
for people to look at and see what they think.

A few options do not work yet as I did not figure out how to
do them in Linux yet, like -p for prompt (it does not wait for
an answer to the question if I remember correctly).

Let me know what you think.  Let me know how you find it useful,
i.e. what you use it for.

Where to get it:
http://members.home.net/stantowianski/

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>Maybe I'll need to write my
>own script ?

You could write 4 or 5 lines in a backup-script to

1) tar your hdd
2) gzip or bzip2 it
3) split it
4) burn it on CD's

Hope this helps.

Ciao,
  Dirk

Re: Putting 2GB into several CD's

#1026

Author: Bob Hauck
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:00

16 lines
1222 bytes

On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:36:47 -0400, Julio Gonzalez-At
<julio@thalamus.med.upenn.edu> wrote:

>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. 

man split

To reassemble, cat part1 part2 part3 ... partN > big_file

-- 
 -| Bob Hauck
 -| To Whom You Are Speaking
 -| http://www.haucks.org/

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads