From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 10 14:32:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from threespace.com (server44.aitcom.net [208.234.0.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1A637B406 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 14:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vwinxp.threespace.com (ip68-11-176-217.br.no.cox.net [68.11.176.217]) by threespace.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14156 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 17:31:51 -0400 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020510162454.01a4b828@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:31:05 -0500 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Chip Morton Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] In-Reply-To: <20020510111431.S40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> References: <20020510140416.C16272-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:22 PM 5/10/2002, f.johan.beisser wrote: >On Fri, 10 May 2002, Marc Ramirez wrote: > > > As someone who is archiving his CD collection, what do people use out > > there for backing up 200 gig of crap? > >the problem is that home storage has far outstripped the ability of home >backup systems. while you can buy a hard drive that can store 60gb for >about USD$120 these days, getting a tape drive system that can do the same >per tape will set you back around USD$2,000, not counting the cost of the >tapes. I want to use CDs to back up some partitions and large files (more than 1 GB). Is there any good way to split these large files into 650 MB chunks for burning to CD-Rs? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message