Thanks Guys! I really goofed! I need to 'copy' not
archive, in the strictest sense, from dvd to cd's.
But I am so glad to know about these programs...turns
out KDar, dar are in SuSE 9.1 Pro distro I use. One
caution I must address is that once the cd's are
written, I must issue them to $M-ft users. So,
archival files (i.e. .dar, .bz2, etc. types) are not
such a good idea. Hopefully, these personally-issued
cd's will assist some students and others with using
and reading the mainly OpenSource linux info.
Thanks again---I have much to study about CD/DVD
copying, file formats, and processes.
----robert
--- "Douglas B. Wise"
You might also look at sdvdbackup if you want to span multiple dvd's... I couldn't figure out how to make dar do dvd's... (Not sure that it can't either...) sdvdbackup doesn't do 1 in your list below but you can do that yourself pretty easily (maybe automate with a script). It is part of the scdbackup package and is found at:
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html
I am currently using it to perform various backups (including system areas) which span up to 6 dvds.
Cheers,
Doug
andreas.philipp@noemasol.com wrote:
Robert.
El Lun 31 Ene 2005 11:34, Robert Williams escribi�:
Is anyone familiar with how to do this? A. Goal: archive cd media with a tool which provides these capabilities ---- 1. Copy data to hard disk; 2. Copy (stream?) data from hard disk to cd media while "spanning" data across multiple cd's, prompt's user for input (insert cd #1, #2, #3,...etc.; 3. Performs bit-by-bit verification of data to insure data integrity; 4. "Bonus" => copy protect media to prevent unauthorized distribution, i.e. make all available data 'read-only'.
I recommend you have a look at the dar (disk archive) utility, and - under KDE - at kdar, a very nice grahical frontend to dar. You'll find all necessary information at http://dar.linux.free.fr/ and http://kdar.sourceforge.net/. Both programs can be easily compiled from the source distribution, if SuSE doesn't provide the latest versions for your distribution.
Regards,
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