-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan wrote: > Caoilte O'Connor wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll >> have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and a >> few have strange accents. >> >> What would people suggest is the best way to go about doing this? I >> guess I need to find the best way of creating a series of correctly >> sized tar files from the directory tree I'm targetting. Does anyone >> know of any scripts or a program that can do this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> c >> >> > > Manual archive creation would be a bit of a chore, and could also end up > wasting space of the DVD. However, it is a scriptable method and allows > you to create DVDs with specific file sets and a file listing as a table > of contents. > > I've just started working with DVDs and am not totally familiar with all > the ins and outs, but at least some of them allow growing the content. > So if you've already got your files in subdirectories, you could simply > copy subdirectories to the DVD and add new files at periodic intervals. > More work, but the advantage of quick access to specific files may > outweigh the time issue. > > If you just want to back it up, cramming every last byte you can onto > each DVD, and you don't need random access to particular files on random > DVDs, then the cdbackup package might be of interest. It will take the > stdout of an archive program such as tar or cpio and stream it to the > DVDs. The down side is that to get to some part near the end would > require reading all the intervening DVDs. > > Bob
Thanks for this thread. A bit late for me because I wiped out my 90 gig s of mp3 files by mistake (big oops). I had 3 dvd's worth backed up, but all the music that I added in the last few months is now gone. Oh well, never listened to most of it anyway. IMO, cdbackup is definitely the way to go. If I had have done that, all of my music would be restored by now. On the plus side, I've been ripping cd's into ogg format and the files are smaller so I can cram even more music on the HD. :) Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF5dEWiXBCVWpc5J4RArsaAKC6ui8+Rm7IfkbzTYtZkl11g2WrXACfeW8J vtwe6DTDnq0f5o+gbnlRW7A= =QbXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
