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[Janus Sandsgaard <lister@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 16:00, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> Tar does not have a max. filesize.  It simply does sequential reads/writes.

I feel comfortable about using tar. A primitive way to do my backup would be 
to make 2 tar-files:

photos + documents 		4,4 GB
mail +.kde, 			3,5 GB

and burn them on each their DVD.

Can I simply do that?
If tar is OK with files around 4,5 GB is there anything special I have to 
worry about when burning the DVD (settings, formats etc)?

Thanks!
Janus

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