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Burning: auto detect end of CD
Name: Six Date: March 21, 2003 at 08:23:18 Pacific OS: Gentoo 1.4rc2 CPU/Ram: 1.3 512
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Hi, is there a program or can cdrecord automatically detect the end of a CD and prompt for the next? I would like to burn 7gb of files as easily as possible. Thanks.
Name: Ronald Date: March 22, 2003 at 05:07:38 Pacific
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Arkeia 5.0.8 will do it but it is not free. There is a 30 day free trail period offered. I am not sure there is an open source solution. Maybe file split? If You had a DVD burner that would work. Try a google search on linux backups Good luck Ron
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Response Number 2
Name: bhtooefr Date: March 23, 2003 at 05:06:43 Pacific
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Errm... a DVD burner can only burn 5.8 GB of data. Try compressing your files (I'm new to Linux, but I think it's gzip). I don't know if you can set the GZ file to be a certain size, but if you can, your job is done. Set each file to be 650/700 MB (depends on your CD-R discs), and burn one to each disc.
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Response Number 3
Name: Six Date: March 23, 2003 at 09:03:50 Pacific
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Yeah, thanks I am working on it. Just burning 700mb separate files.
A DVD holds 4.7gb btw.
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Response Number 4
Name: Ronald Date: March 24, 2003 at 03:35:57 Pacific
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Hi Six, Thats is correct a DVD holds 4.7 gigs. That is why I said file split would work with DVD These people with those kinds of names know it all. Just like that Balram person. If though know so much why are they at this forum?4.7*2=9.4gigs which would back up more than 7 gigs. And you will never zip 7 gigs into 700mb with gzip. Filesplit splits them down the middle.
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Response Number 5
Name: 3Dave Date: March 24, 2003 at 09:23:23 Pacific
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First tar and gzip the files (in this case in a directory called "folder"), thus making one big compressed file: # tar zcv folder > folder.tar.gz
Then split the file: # split -b 650M folder.tar.gz folder.tar.gz.part This will create a number of files, folder.tar.gz.part1, folder.tar.gz.part2 etc.
To put them back together again: # cat folder.tar.gz.part* > folder.tar.gz
Then unzip it to get the original files back: # tar zxvf folder.tar.gz
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