Re: [LUG] Creating iso images automagicly

[Robin Cornelius <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 22:09, Peter Walker wrote:
> Robin Cornelius wrote:
>
> > It is for backup actualy, but only non-incremental backups. I was hoping 
that 
> > this basic problem has been seen and there was an easy answer!. So a script 
> > it is, my way of dividing up the files is just to start recursing through 
the 
> > directory structure totaling up the file size. when some limit is reached 
> > call that an iso. I am sure if you allow some percentage for padding, with 
a 
> > bit of fiddling this will work ok.
> >  
>
> Have you considered dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr/)?
>
> Pete


Looks sweet :-) , Will have to give it a go this week and see how i get on. As 
it produces a single (slice) file I assume this can be fed directly as a file 
to growfs. Also features data checking and conditional compression this 
certainly looks the business. 

Thanks for pointing that one out!

Robin

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