Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 22:15 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: I wrote to the maintainer (James) and received the following reply:

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Dale Dellutri
Have you looked at dar? # yum info dar I've never used it, but it does do multi-volume slices of an archive. -- Dale Dellutri -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Dale Dellutri daledellu...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at dar?   # yum info dar I've never used it, but it does do multi-volume slices of an archive. Interesting. I think it's way overkill for what we're trying to do. Apparently it will create split

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver capability in F13? Ideally I'd like to use an application

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, a python guru I am not, but I did manage to replace the 'popen2' call to the current 'subprocess' call which fixed DVD device discovery for me. I still have to figure something else out though. When it executed

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, a python guru I am not, but I did manage to replace the 'popen2' call to the current 'subprocess' call which fixed DVD device discovery for me.

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 11:31 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, a python guru I am not, but I did manage to replace the 'popen2' call to the current

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: I wrote to the maintainer (James) and received the following reply: Great minds think alike. I did the same and got pretty much the same response. I've forwarded him my updates but I'll attach it here one more

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 22:15 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: I wrote to the maintainer (James) and received the following reply: Great minds think alike. I did the same and got pretty much the same response. I've

Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver capability in F13? Ideally I'd like to use an application that writes and reads directly

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 19:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver