On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 02:25 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 23:45 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I need to back up 20 GB of Windows data from a hard drive onto DVDs so
> that a Windows user can access it. I can read the Windows hard drive
> just fine.
>
> What software might I use to automagically split the data into DVD sized
> chunks and write it to a DVD ?
>
> It would be nice if it didn't put half of one dir on one DVD and the
> second half on another. I know this will happen with any dir that is
> larger than a DVD, but it would be nice if it didn't do that for the
> rest.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/discspan/
The just-released 0.2.0 version still has a couple of bugs. The --test
option does not prevent disc burning. You may also have to
edit /etc/discspan.ini to reduce the max size spec for a DVD blank by
10-12M to prevent overflows. I've learned that not all DVD-Rs are the
same size. All DVD+Rs appear to be, and should burn faster.
Hope this helps.
It does. Thanks for the tip. I've downloaded it and it runs. I'll use
it to write my discs tonight and report back.
LG