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multi-DVD-spanning backups without tar
Authored by: dbs on May 24, '07 09:18:06AM

I'd like a script that does not tar files. I.e., I want it to copy as far down the directory structure as it can fit then put the rest of the structure on the next DVD so I can browse them without untarring first.

I a script to do this. It creates burn folders for each DVD (so there's no copying involved) but it doesn't work correctly. The problem is that I used "du" to calculate the size of folders for splitting, but this does not give the same results as Apple's burn folders.

I.e., I'd make sure I had less than 4.7GB of data in each DVD, but the burn folder would show it was larger. I think this has a lot to do with the number of files/directories, but I could not figure out any way to correctly estimate this so I haven't been able to finish it.

Any ideas?



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