RE: smart file archiving
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [mailto:ke6sls@snowcrest.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 2:43 PM
> To: Tim Kelley
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: smart file archiving
>
>
> On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:34, Tim Kelley wrote:
>
> >
> > Do you need them on cd, or do you just want a second copy
> in case what you
> > have somehow gets blown away?
>
> That is exactly why I want them on portable media. I have had
> all my drives
> destroyed by my utility provider. I do have a UPS, but I
> would like to have
> them portable just the same.
>
> The other stuff I back up is MUCH smaller and I can simply
> copy the whole
> directory to my cd's, but the mp3's are very large.
>
> I manually did the math last time (being way to conservitive)
> and ended up
> with 5 cdroms.
>
Divide up your mp3's into 5 directories that each contain about 650Mb
of data. Then use cdrecord and mkisofs to write them to cd. I have
a slow machine and have to make an iso image in a file first and then
burn that. You can use a pipe from mkisofs to cdrecord if your machine
is good enough. The man page for cdrecord has examples. It is much
simpler than I thought it would be. If you want cd's that can be
used on windows, use mkhybrid instead of mkisofs...
jim
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