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Re: Archive 20GB?

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Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> wrote:
>  Have need of archiving around 20GB with a million
>  or so files to DVD. DVD is _not_
>  local so need to create files that can be later moved
>  to machine with DVD writer and then written. Network
>  mount is not feasible in this case.
> 
>  In old days this would be a split tarball  ( tar piped into split )
>  with small enough chunks to write to DVD.
> 
>  RHEL 5.6 system
> 
>  Is there a better way to write the archives? Ideally one
>  in which I don't have to recreate the entire tarball
>  to dig out one archived file, but also one which will be
>  readable in 5 or 10 years?

If it were me, then I'd put it onto a hard drive and lock away
the hard drive.  40-80GB hard drives are dirt cheap.  Buy 2 or 3.
Write to all of them.  Keep them in different time zones in case
of disaster.  Maybe even write to a 32GB SD card.

Good luck....

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Archive 20GB? Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2011-05-23 19:42 +0000
  Re: Archive 20GB? Kevin the Drummer <nobody@cosgroves.us> - 2011-05-23 22:41 -0500
    Re: Archive 20GB? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-24 11:00 +0100
      Re: Archive 20GB? Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> - 2011-05-25 10:32 +0100
  Re: Archive 20GB? David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2011-05-24 08:05 +0200
  Re: Archive 20GB? Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2011-05-24 18:58 +0000
    Re: Archive 20GB? Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> - 2011-05-25 10:32 +0100
      Re: Archive 20GB? Tony <tony@darkstorm.invalid> - 2011-05-25 15:24 +0100
        Re: Archive 20GB? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 15:40 +0100
          Re: Archive 20GB? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-25 17:05 +0100
            Re: Archive 20GB? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 17:55 +0100
            Re: Archive 20GB? Kevin the Drummer <nobody@cosgroves.us> - 2011-05-29 16:56 -0500
          Re: Archive 20GB? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-26 03:19 +0000
      Re: Archive 20GB? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2011-05-25 07:25 -0700
        Re: Archive 20GB? Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2011-05-25 11:26 -0400
        Re: Archive 20GB? Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> - 2011-05-25 16:34 +0100
          Re: Archive 20GB? Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2011-05-25 11:56 -0400
            Re: Archive 20GB? TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 20:19 +0200
          Re: Archive 20GB? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2011-05-25 10:23 -0700
        Re: Archive 20GB? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-25 16:58 +0100
        Re: Archive 20GB? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-25 16:13 +0000

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