On 06Aug2011 05:00, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: | --- In [email protected], Arturo Ovalle <dr_ovalle@...> wrote: | tar doesn't compress it concatenates preserving attributes. Well it | does a few other goofy tricks too but not unless you actually have a | tape drive.
While grovelling in some dirt this afternoon I was thinking it is a real deficiency of CDROM/DVDROM burner drivers that you can't treat them like tapes. Tar naturally handles filling a tape, being a tape archiver, and it could naturally handle filling a DVD too if the things had a good behaviour. You _should_ be able to go: tar cvf /dev/my-dvd-drive stuff-to-archive... and have tar prompt for each new DVD in turn. You'd be burning a "raw" tar data stream to the DVD instead of an ISO9660 filesystem image, but for purposes of the OP it would work nicely, generating a sequence of DVDs you could label and put on the shelf, ready to extract with tar later. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, and mopery with intent to gawk. - Mike Royko ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
