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