Hi Bryan-TheBS-Smith,
I am using Red Hat 7.1 Linux at home and very interested in back up of about
4 GB of data to CD-ROMs.
I've picked up your
back2cd.tcsh,v 1.4 2000/12/15 16:12:48 bjsmith
and printed it out at my office and plan to study it when I get home and try
to learn how it works.
Meanwhile, do you know if tar can split a multi-gig folder into 650 MB
chunks so they can be written to a CD-RW. I'd like to put something in a
bash script that will use just tar to archive the big folder into smaller
archive volumes.
Years ago, I worked with 8MM tapes that we would tar our backups to and tar
would split or span the data to several tape volumes. I'd like to do
something like that, but instead of tape - use a hard drive and ask tar to
output 650 MB chunks. Then I'll take the chunks and write them to CD-ROMs.
What I'm looking for is a simple bash script that I can write (and
understand) that I can run in Red Hat 7.1 to do the job. To keep it simple,
I'd like to use just tar by itself and not have to pipe the tar output to
split.
I would appreciate your, or any SLUG guru suggestions and tips.
Bill
Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
< snip >
| Even ISO9660, the file format of CD-ROMs, can also be considered an
| archive format. Using mkisofs, you can make archives as well -- and
| then burn them to CD. In fact, I'm writing a program called "car"
| that is a CD-ROM ARchiver with Tar-like syntax.
|
| [ Side Note: This "project" originally started out as a backup
| script called "back2cd" that I wrote for Steve Litt. It should
| allow you to backup between 1-2GB of data to a CD-ROM in a way you
| can directly access when you want to restore a file. You simply use
| the script, and then use your normal burning software to burn the
| resulting ISO image (be it cdrecord on UNIX or CD Creator or Nero's
| package on Windows). You can find here:
| http://smithconcepts.com/files/scripts/back2cd.tcsh ]
|
| -- TheBS
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