Re: Backup thousands of files 1 at a time with growisofs?

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On  6 Jul, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> Dear Folks,
> 
> I just bought a DVD writer on Sunday and am ignorant about DVDs;
> please excuse me.
> 
> Can I back up thousands of small files, one at a time to a DVD, with
> growisofs?  Can is do something simple like this, and get a reliable
> result?
> 
> What are the limitations of this if it is possible?
> 
> The kind of thing I wonder is: can I do something like this:
> 
> growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -J -R file1
> for f in otherfiles...;do
>     growisofs -M /dev/dvd -J -R $f
> done
> 
> where otherfiles... expands to many tens of thousands of files.
> 
Why don't you use  'tar' especially with compression like
tar czf- otherfiles | growisofs ...

This compresses the tar archive and otherfiles may me millions.
I have'nt worked with growisofs, yet, since I am waiting for 
affordable double layer writers and media.
Have a look at

http://www.serice.net/shunt/

and see the flyisofs / growisofs example there.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany