Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?
Caoilte O'Connor wrote:
> I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll
> have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and a
> few have strange accents.
>
> What would people suggest is the best way to go about doing this? I
> guess I need to find the best way of creating a series of correctly
> sized tar files from the directory tree I'm targetting. Does anyone
> know of any scripts or a program that can do this?
Not sure about DVD backup, but for about the cost of a few months of DVDs,
you can get yourself a firewire external hard drive and a firewire card to
do a fully automated backup with faubackup. That would be a better option
than to DVD.
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