On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote: >> >> I'm running C5.8 and want to backup a directory that is 6GB >> in size. >> >> Is there any Linux program for Centos to make this backup >> over 2 x 4.4GB DVD+R disks please? >> >> Something with a GUI like K3b would do nicely. > > OK I have found dar in EPEL > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAR_%28Disk_Archiver%29 > > and a gui for it called dargui > > http://dargui.sourceforge.net/ > > I have downloaded the 0.7.0 linux version, and run the > ./install.sh script, and it has installed itself on > Centos 5.8 32bit and runs nicely. > > What would be handy is to be able to make my overnight > directory backups into slices, so they are ready to burn to > DVD's whenever I want to. > Assuming you have space to hold the temp copies, why don't you do something like: tar -czf - dir |split --bytes=4G /parth/to/prefix Odds are good that a 6GB dir would compress to fit on on DVD anyway. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com