After a few months of thinking about it, I found a suite of data
archiving routines that seemed suitable fo the Pandora preservation
problem.
< http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html >
Using this software, I have copied all of the .iso files and some
other stuff from the former Pandora disk drive to a set of 23 DVDs.
Each DVD contains an index to the whole data set, and I have made a
more comprehensive index which now lives on a CD.
There are some 3328 files in the index, but only 162 .iso. The rest
are stray .rpms and other small things that I did not manage to purge
from the list before the grand DVD burning took place. If anyone
wants a list of the .iso files it's a simple grep(1) operation, and I
could do something with it.
Presumably the next step is to make another set of 23 DVDs for
redundancy, and find a safe place to keep them.
carl
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