[CentOS] Archive-to-DVD
MHR
mhullrich at gmail.com
Fri May 2 17:36:35 UTC 2008
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:41 AM, David Mackintosh
<David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Here's the situation. I have a group of engineers who love to save
> things to disk. Now that the filer is getting full, they are
> interested in archiving some of those things to DVD.
>
> The tress containing the things they want to archive are specified
> like so:
>
> /path/path/path/A/04??
> /path/path/path/B/04??
> /path/path/path/A/05??
> /path/path/path/B/05??
> /path/path/path/A/06??
> /path/path/path/B/06??
>
> ...and there are things in A and B which do not match the specifications.
>
> The total amount of data in this specificaiton is around 30GB, and this is not
> distributed equally through the specification.
>
> What I'm hoping for is a program that I can feed in directory
> specifications like the above, and it will produce for me DVD images
> (.iso files) containing these trees in such a format that when the
> engineers want file $X, I can give them the DVD (or the whole stack,
> if required) and say "there you go" without having to go through a
> restore process.
>
> I don't want something which creates it's own archive format which
> spans the DVDs (ie split-tar or ufsdump).
>
> I would settle for a program that produces a list of files such that I
> can create DVD images on my own.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how I might go about doing this, before I
> roll my own solution?
>
For requirements as specific as you list above, I'm guessing that the
fastest solution is to roll your own - a relatively simple shell
script should do the trick.
mhr
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