Backing up data to span multiple CDs K3B 0.11.23 cd-record 1.2? Fedora 4 kernel 2.6.12 – reposted from September

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:42 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Clive at Rational wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>   Is it possible to use K3B to back up data that is
> >> over 700MB in size so that it spans multiple backup
> >> CDs? I remember zip used to be able to span backups
> >> across multiple floppy disks.
> > 
> > 
> > Umm, PKZIP can do that. If that's what you really
> > want, then you can try running DOSBOX or DOSEMU.
> > 
> > Another possibility is zip + zipsplit.
> > 
> > Mike
> 
Mondorescue is a great tool for doing backups of specified size (CD,
DVD, Tape, etc.).

http://mondorescue.berlios.de/ is the current site for downloads.  
http://www.mondorescue.org/ was the original site and has some
information on it.

> Come to think of it, tar an other archive utilities can do it: you need 
> to specify the size of the "tape volume" and maybe use a script to do 
> stuff with the files it creates it.
> 
> It doesn't (or didn't when I looked years ago) hand compressed output 
> well as the size you provide relates to input sizes.
> 
> afio (not a standard component) is better as it can create compresses 
> archives sized on the output size.
> 
> 
> 
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> John
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