Re: write large amount of data to CD-R media



Thufir wrote:
I'm going to be writing a large amount of data to disc, CD-R, and would like to be able to select a folder of many GB and have it the files written to disc automagically.

I kinda like <http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html>, and there's a KDE front-end, but haven't used it yet. I like the idea of slices (one disc=one slice?) and direct access, which the help page explains by stating that:

"even using compression dar has not to read the whole backup to extract one file."

So, if I know that the particular file I'm looking for is on disc 6 (meaning slice 6?), then I can just pop disc 6 in and extract it? Can I also extract the entire slice with one go?

I say "extract", but I don't have intentions of using compression.

I'm looking for user experience with DAR or similar tools.

Thufir, I have no experience with dar, but I came across this one:
dirsplit --no-act -s 700M ~/temp/

I set the size as 1M just to see what it would do {--no-act}. I did notice that the largest file in the folder must be smaller than the split size, which was OK for me, but may not be for you. This would still be kind of a manual process, ie using k3b to make each cd from the splitup folders.

Perhaps backuppc would achieve your goals (I can't remember it's process).

DaveT.

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