> -----Original Message----- > From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 2:43 PM > To: Tim Kelley > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: smart file archiving > > > On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:34, Tim Kelley wrote: > > > > > Do you need them on cd, or do you just want a second copy > in case what you > > have somehow gets blown away? > > That is exactly why I want them on portable media. I have had > all my drives > destroyed by my utility provider. I do have a UPS, but I > would like to have > them portable just the same. > > The other stuff I back up is MUCH smaller and I can simply > copy the whole > directory to my cd's, but the mp3's are very large. > > I manually did the math last time (being way to conservitive) > and ended up > with 5 cdroms. > Divide up your mp3's into 5 directories that each contain about 650Mb of data. Then use cdrecord and mkisofs to write them to cd. I have a slow machine and have to make an iso image in a file first and then burn that. You can use a pipe from mkisofs to cdrecord if your machine is good enough. The man page for cdrecord has examples. It is much simpler than I thought it would be. If you want cd's that can be used on windows, use mkhybrid instead of mkisofs...
jim
