Thanks for the suggestions everybody. I have quite specific backup requirements (a very large and mostly static resource) so I was just looking to see if anyone had already found the optimum solution for dealing with it. As there doesn't seem to be a bespoke solution and I'll be probably be doing the backup over a period of several days, I think I'll work out a CLI solution with "dar". I'm not sure how differential backups will work later when I'll have ten or so dvds to test against or if I have to create every 4gig "slice" at the same time. I suppose the ideal solution would be a program which created an index I could test against and backup different portions of at a later time. Thanks again, c On 28/02/07, Caoilte O'Connor <caoilte@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, 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? Thanks, c