DVD Based backup without scripts ?

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 14 23:27:27 UTC 2008


--- On Sat, 6/14/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: DVD Based backup without scripts ?
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 2:42 PM
> On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 14:24 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > --- On Sat, 6/14/08, linuxguy
> <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: linuxguy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: DVD Based backup without scripts ?
> > > To: "For users of Fedora"
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 2:07 PM
> > > I'd like to backup a bunch of data onto DVDs.
>   About 16
> > > GB worth, more
> > > than a single DVD holds.
> > > 
> > > Is there a (GPL?) Linux utility that I can use to
> do this
> > > easily ?
> > > 
> > > LG
> > > 
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> > Theres K9copy, it should be available through yum,
> check livna, freshrpms, and other repositories.  It is
> called the Linux DVDshrink in comparison to DvdShrink, the
> windows program. You can also use it in conjunction with
> wine as well.  
> 
> k9copy is for copying (and compressing) DVDs. The OP is
> asking about
> backing up data onto DVDs, a different issue.
>
Sorry for reading more than was there :(
I thought I read how to back up DVD's and not 

`original quote`
I'd like to backup a bunch of data onto DVDs. About 16 GB worth, more
than a single DVD holds.
`etouq lanigiro`

Sorry I read more than things than I should have.  

Regards,

Antonio 

[olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -iprm
2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
[olivares at localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor LE-1600


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> 
> You can use 'tar' for this, with the --multi-volume
> option. The manpage
> is not very informative so do 'info tar' and look
> for the section on
> multi-volume archives.
> 
> poc
> 
> -- 



      




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