[ale] Backup large files to span DVDs

[pizza at shaftnet.org (Solomon Peachy)]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 08:20:14AM -0700, Alex Carver wrote:
> I'll need to look into split.  I presume I would just do a split on the
> tar, burn those individual files, and then splice them back together if
> they're needed in the future into the single tar to uncompress?
> 
> Double layer won't help, one of the files is 18 GB. :)

In all seriousness, there's always Blu-ray.

Single-layer 25G discs can easily be had for under $1 now, and 50GB 
dual-layer discs can be found for under $3.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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