[ale] Backup large files to span DVDs

[Jim Kinney]

+1

Tarball with bzip and split into manageable sizes. Or get a double layer
DVD burner :-)
On Oct 27, 2015 11:13 AM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> You've looked at "split" already, I presume?
>
> stack exchange also suggesst 7z as a tool
>
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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok, Google is failing me today.  I've got some large files (larger than
>> 5GB each) that I need to archive to DVD so I'll have to span DVDs.  The
>> problem is I can't seem to find the appropriate magic incantations to
>> accomplish this.
>>
>> The file image and burning tools tools available are genisoimage and
>> wodim (unfortunately no mkisofs or cdrecord, thanks Debian).
>>
>> Everything I've found online so far starts wtih the assumption of a
>> directory full of small files and to make multiple ISOs from those.  But
>> in this case a single file is bigger than the DVD and there are several
>> files (about 40GB worth) to archive.
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