On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 19:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ > > directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- > > or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver capability > > in F13? Ideally I'd like to use an application that writes and reads > > directly to/from a DVD drive and prompts for the next disc until done. > > > tar will do volumes. You will want to write a small script to prompt you, > probably. The problem is not that there is no capability, but there are so many. > Clarifying your needs for features like restoring individual files, encryption, Bill, Thanks, but I think you're reading way too much into my request. File sizes in the .../Everything directory range from a few 27-char soft links to a ginormous 883,104,197-char nexuiz-data-2.5.2-1.fc13.src.rpm. I want to be able to copy that directory with all its subordinate directories, files, ownerships, permissions, etc. onto a minimum number of DVDs. Ideally I'd want to pop all those discs into a DVD drive on a new machine and use 'cp -a' to recreate the .../Everything directory. 'discspan', a Python script suggested by Richard Shaw, appears to fill the bill very nicely. Unfortunately it just crapped out after burning the first DVD-R on an RHEL5 server actually hosting the .../Everything directory. I'm about to retry from an F13 laptop and an NFS/autofs link. If it successfully gets past the disc #1 to #2 transition under F13, it should finish after 14 DVD-R discs. I'll let you know in a few hours. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
