[ale] Backup large files to span DVDs

[pete.hardie at gmail.com (Pete Hardie)]

You've looked at "split" already, I presume?

stack exchange also suggesst 7z as a tool


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> Ok, Google is failing me today.  I've got some large files (larger than
> 5GB each) that I need to archive to DVD so I'll have to span DVDs.  The
> problem is I can't seem to find the appropriate magic incantations to
> accomplish this.
>
> The file image and burning tools tools available are genisoimage and
> wodim (unfortunately no mkisofs or cdrecord, thanks Debian).
>
> Everything I've found online so far starts wtih the assumption of a
> directory full of small files and to make multiple ISOs from those.  But
> in this case a single file is bigger than the DVD and there are several
> files (about 40GB worth) to archive.
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