[uug] burning multiple CDs in one session

[Wade Preston Shearer]

i have about 5 GB's worth of stuff that back up periodically to CD 
(weekly to an archive server, but about quarterly to CD, for extra 
security). within this data, there are subcategories, to it hasn't been 
too hard to simply make one CD for each sub-category. the data has 
grown so large however, that it is impossible to fit an entire category 
on one CD. so, i am faced with a very difficult problem... how cut the 
data up into 650 MB chunks, in a way that is easy, fast, and makes 
sense for accessing later.

i think that it would be really nice if there was a program that would 
take a directory (with all of the sub-directories within it)... yes all 
5 GB worth... and simply start burning... filling up one CD after the 
next... prompting you to insert the next disc when each fills up... 
writing the files to disk in the order that they are within the 
directory... while preserving the file structure. once done, you might 
have part of one directory on one CD and part of it on another, but the 
directory structure would be retained and consistent, so that you could 
find everything.

does something like this exist? or is there an easy way to accomplish 
this kind of backing up?

-wade



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