[Techtalk] Backup types

[Rudy L. Zijlstra]

Ricky Buchanan wrote:

>I have 18-ish gigabytes of sound files, mp3 and ogg format intermixed.
>They're mostly talking books but not many files over 5mb since they're
>nicely chopped into pieces for easy listening.
>
>I have them arranged into directories by author, which usually means
>audio-cd worth per directory (50mb+).
>
>My hard disk seems to be dying, so I want to back them up onto a pile of
>30-something CD/Rs.  But I'm not sure of the best way to "arrange" them
>into piles of 800mb each to get them onto the CDs.
>
>I'd *vastly* prefer that they were accessible on the CD, that they
>weren't in a tar file or anything, because it's one less level of stuff
>that can get corrupted and loose me my files.  If I can have them just
>on the disk plain that'd be best.  But how do I "chop" the directories
>into the appropriate size chunks?  Anybody seen a script that does this,
>or know of a trivial way to do it?
>
>
>Regards,
>Ricky
>  
>
You could try multi CD, to be found at: http://danborn.net/multicd/

Rudy