Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

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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


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