On Wednesday 27 July 2005 10:42 pm, Doug McLaren wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:53:08PM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote: > | Cd roms only like about 600 to 700 Meg, right? > > 700 MB. > > | So, I need to do it across multiple cds. I am using a Mac (OS 10.3.9) > | but might go back to linux. > > OSX is close enough for any of these ideas. > ... > > way #3: > > Buy a DVD burner. They're cheap now, and so is the media. They'll > hold 4.5 GB, and your data will fit fine, for now. > > way #4: > > use tar -zcvf or zip -9r to compress the files. It's possible that > 2.8 GB will compress to less than 700 MB. Unlikely, but possible, > depending on what's in the files.
Might not be a bad idea o see if the cloop compression works. If the files are binary execs, you can also try http://upx.sourceforge.net/ Best way I can think of ('cause it's easy) is to use mondorescue (I use it to back up my stuff to dvds, but it can also autosplit large files to cd's). See www.mondorescue.orf and the howto at http://phazeman.mail333.com/Mondo_Rescue_CD_HOWTO.htm > > way #5: > > use `rar' to make multiple 650 MB volumes, and each one can be written > to a CD. (Get a linux or OSX version from > http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm.) > > way #7: > > tar has multiple volume support as well, though I suspect that rar > would be better all around. > > way #8: > > I had a similar problem several years ago, and wanted something that was > as easy as possible to restore. So I wrote a perl script that takes > as input an input and an output directory, as well as a target size, > and it creates a copy of the original directory structure under the > target directory, creating directories under that that are less than > the target size you've specified. > > It does this via _hard links_ so it basically copies the original > files but doesn't use any extra space, and you can delete all the > stuff it creates after you've burned each directory to disk. > > It was written as a one-off, so it's not a polished product, but maybe > you'll find it useful. Grab it from > > http://mclaren.frenzy.com/~dougmc/split-up-dir-structure -- ----------- Analabha Roy Graduate Student Department Of Physics University Of Texas 1 University Station C1600 Austin TX 78712-0264 United States Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list Siglinux@utacm.org http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
