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Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??



Chris Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote:
I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd.
I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd.
The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to
put files on multiple dvds.
My k3b works great - but i can not feed it a directory of files and ask it
just copy all the files and ask me for a new  dvd when you need it.

My multicd gives error :
I've never heard of multicd so I can't comment on its errors.

Personally, I'd tar up the big directory, zip it (or bzip2 it,
whatever), then pipe it through split, telling split to split it into
sizes appropriate to your DVD media.

A neat little utility named "dar" takes care of all the splitting for
you:

    http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Tutorial.html


and "of course" Debian has that:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/dar

Hugo


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