Jeff Abrahamson on 10 Nov 2004 14:17:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] CD image packer


On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:24:10PM -0500, Martin DiViaio wrote:
> On the 9th day of November in the year 2004 you wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:48:59 -0500
> > From: Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>
> > To: PLUG <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> > Subject: [PLUG] CD image packer
> > 
> > I want to dump files onto CD's for backup purposes.  I have more files
> > than will fit on a single CD, but I want each CD to stand unto itself
> > (in case of loss of some of the others).  Ideally, each CD would
> > simply have a fragment of my file system on it or at least a single
> > but whole tar archive.
> > 
> > Does anyone know a tool that does this?  I haven't found one (google,
> > freshmeat).
> > 
> 
> tar(1) has the --tape-length option. . . 

But then you lose everything if the first CD goes bad.

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 Jeff

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