Dear Folks, On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:57:34AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > 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 ... I would particularly like to have my music uncompressed, untarred so I can just put the dvd into a machine and play them. I would also like to be able to visually browse the photos on the dvd, since I have a web site with many gigabytes of family photos, and it would be nice to be able to give copies of the photos to my family more easily. > 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. That is wonderful! It looks like exactly the right thing! How Unixy that is; it allows me to put it into a pipeline, simplifying everything! I look forward to running this tomorrow if I can make time. Thank you again, that looks like a perfect solution. -- Nick Urbanik RHCE nicku(at)vtc.edu.hk Proud member of the Dept. of Information & Communications Technology, Home of Visual Paradigm: Jolt Productivity Award winner, programmed by our own graduates! Tel: (852) 2436 8576 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24
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