On 6 Jul, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I just bought a DVD writer on Sunday and am ignorant about DVDs; > please excuse me. > > Can I back up thousands of small files, one at a time to a DVD, with > growisofs? Can is do something simple like this, and get a reliable > result? > > What are the limitations of this if it is possible? > > The kind of thing I wonder is: can I do something like this: > > growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -J -R file1 > for f in otherfiles...;do > growisofs -M /dev/dvd -J -R $f > done > > where otherfiles... expands to many tens of thousands of files. > Why don't you use 'tar' especially with compression like tar czf- otherfiles | growisofs ...
This compresses the tar archive and otherfiles may me millions. I have'nt worked with growisofs, yet, since I am waiting for affordable double layer writers and media. Have a look at http://www.serice.net/shunt/ and see the flyisofs / growisofs example there. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
