Burning a backup to DVD-DL
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Mon Nov 13 02:54:25 UTC 2006
Tony Nelson wrote:
> The problem is the size of root.star. There is a 2 GiB limit for files in
> a ISO9660 filesystem (and the workaround reportedly does not work in
> general). Probably star's tsize option is needed, to split the backup into
> 1 or 2 GiB "tapes".
Yeah, I'm trying it now with a 4GB and a 3.5GB files. I'll let you know
in a couple of hours whether or not it worked.... I should be able to
cat them back together and read the .star table of contents.....
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Kevin J. Cummings
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cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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