Re: Best way to backup large, trashed partition to CD

2001-10-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 04:04:08PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: ... > I said dd if=/dev/hdxx of=bigImage > and then bzipped bigImage. However, the result is still larger than a > CD can hold. $ split -b 650m bigImage $ ls x* xaa xab xac... -- groetjes, carel

Re: Best way to backup large, trashed partition to CD

2001-10-12 Thread Kurt Lieber
Couldn't you just use split after you bzipped it and put it on a couple CD-Rs? --kurt On Friday 12 October 2001 h:04, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a large partition that is damaged, and so currently unreadable. > I would like to back it up in case I ever feel like trying to > reconstruct it, and

Best way to backup large, trashed partition to CD

2001-10-12 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a large partition that is damaged, and so currently unreadable. I would like to back it up in case I ever feel like trying to reconstruct it, and then get rid of it. My backup is CD-R. I said dd if=/dev/hdxx of=bigImage and then bzipped bigImage. However, the result is still larger than