[gentoo-user] Span data DVD

[gentoo-user] Span data DVD

[reader]

What tools do we have that will span DVDS when creating ISO or writing
to DVD.

I mean something that will prompt for more media when target data exceeds 1
DVD.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Span data DVD

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:22:32 -0600 reader@newsguy.com wrote:

> What tools do we have that will span DVDS when creating ISO or writing
> to DVD.
> 
> I mean something that will prompt for more media when target data
> exceeds 1 DVD.

That depends on the data, I'd say. Splitting is most likely not to be
done on iso9660 level. That said, of course you can use split(1) on the
ISO or large input files. But that would either corrupt the ISO so the
DVDs aren't mountable (or mountable, but broken) or data that can't be
read.

In order to give a more specific advice, please tell us about the kind
of data you want to put on that DVD. I remember that there were tools
that calculate an optimum distribution of files of different sizes so
that a given amount of media space is optimally used. Probably
something in Perl, but unfortunately I don't remember...

If you want to have that for backup purposes, you're probably better
off using split(1) on tar files or using RAR (which has built-in split
functionality) or similar.

-hwh
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[gentoo-user] Re: Span data DVD

[reader]

Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de> writes:

> In order to give a more specific advice, please tell us about the kind
> of data you want to put on that DVD. I remember that there were tools
> that calculate an optimum distribution of files of different sizes so
> that a given amount of media space is optimally used. Probably
> something in Perl, but unfortunately I don't remember...

The data in this case consistes of thousands of photos in various
formats in a structured directory system.

It would be good not to split a single top level directory across 2
DVD.  In fact I guess that would be nearly a requirement else one
might have to mount more than one DVD to view a single directory and
would never know which ones.

So sonething smart enough to judge the sizes of dierctories and put
only as much as the DVD will hold but not splitting a directlry.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Span data DVD

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:22:32 -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:

> I mean something that will prompt for more media when target data
> exceeds 1 DVD.

dar and kdar have options to split backups across DVD (or CD)-sized
media.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Span data DVD

[Dale]

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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:22:32 -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
>
>   
>> I mean something that will prompt for more media when target data
>> exceeds 1 DVD.
>>     
>
> dar and kdar have options to split backups across DVD (or CD)-sized
> media.
>
>
>   

What package does those come from?  I can't find it here.

Thanks.

Dale
:-)  :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Span data DVD

[Peter Ruskin]

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 17:05, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:22:32 -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> >> I mean something that will prompt for more media when target
> >> data exceeds 1 DVD.
> >
> > dar and kdar have options to split backups across DVD (or
> > CD)-sized media.
>
> What package does those come from?  I can't find it here.
>
$ eix dar
[I] app-backup/dar
     Available versions:
        (0)     2.2.6
        (4)     ~2.3.1
     Installed:           2.2.6[01:03:58 07/09/06]
[-acl -dar32 -dar64 doc examples nls ssl -static]
     Homepage:            http://dar.linux.free.fr/
     Description:         A full featured backup tool, aimed for 
disks (floppy,CDR(W),DVDR(W),zip,jazz etc.)

[I] app-backup/kdar
     Available versions:  2.0.7
     Installed:           2.0.7[01:05:17 07/09/06]
[-dar32 -dar64 -debug -xinerama arts]
     Homepage:            http://kdar.sourceforge.net/
     Description:         KDE Disk Archiver.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Span data DVD

[Dale]

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Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 17:05, Dale wrote:
>   
>>
>> What package does those come from?  I can't find it here.
>>
>>     
> $ eix dar
> [I] app-backup/dar
>      Available versions:
>         (0)     2.2.6
>         (4)     ~2.3.1
>      Installed:           2.2.6[01:03:58 07/09/06]
> [-acl -dar32 -dar64 doc examples nls ssl -static]
>      Homepage:            http://dar.linux.free.fr/
>      Description:         A full featured backup tool, aimed for 
> disks (floppy,CDR(W),DVDR(W),zip,jazz etc.)
>
> [I] app-backup/kdar
>      Available versions:  2.0.7
>      Installed:           2.0.7[01:05:17 07/09/06]
> [-dar32 -dar64 -debug -xinerama arts]
>      Homepage:            http://kdar.sourceforge.net/
>      Description:         KDE Disk Archiver.
>
>   

Well, I guess I typed it wrong or something.  I couldn't find it before
but it shows up now. 

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)

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