Re: Best way to backup large, trashed partition to CD

[Kurt Lieber <kurt@lieber.org>]

Couldn't you just use split after you bzipped it and put it on a couple 
CD-Rs? 

--kurt

On Friday 12 October 2001 h:04, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I have a large partition that is damaged, and so currently unreadable.
> I would like to back it up in case I ever feel like trying to
> reconstruct it, and then get rid of it.  My backup is CD-R.
>
> I said dd if=/dev/hdxx of=bigImage
> and then bzipped bigImage.  However, the result is still larger than a
> CD can hold.
>
> What's the best way (or even a way) to handle this?
>
> Thanks.