Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:40:31 -1000 From: Robert Marella <rmarella@gmail.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah) Message-ID: <20070525104031.36e2a857@p4> In-Reply-To: <20070525200212.GA31112@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20070525150929.GA25582@panix.com> <200705251630.l4PGU0YF091446@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070525094635.3932cddf@p4> <20070525200212.GA31112@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Fri, 25 May 2007 22:02:13 +0200 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:46:35AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:00 +0200 (CEST) > > Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > By the way, I am _not_ using k3b or any other krap. ;-) > > > > > > Best regards > > > Oliver > > > > > What is Krap to one can be Komfort to another. ;-) > > > > I assist a photographer fiend by maintaining her computers, network > > and doing backups. Being a photographer in Hawaii means she shoots > > about 200 weddings a year. > > > > A typical month will run from 80GB to over 200GB depending upon the > > time of year and other factors. After about 3 months I will archive > > the projects to DVD. I make two copies of each DVD so that they can > > be kept in different locations. Some weddings and other projects > > will be 20GB or more. Trying to divide these projects over the > > fewest number of DVDs is quite easy with K3B because I can add or > > subtract individual files as needed to fill the DVD to the maximum. > > > > If someone knows an easy way to do this on the command line I would > > be more than willing to try it. > > dirsplit (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dirsplit/) will do the trick > nicely. > > Roland Roland Thanks for the reply. Mea culpa, I failed to mention that the individual file cannot be spread over different media. After archiving to DVD I than catalog the photos on a Windows machine using Portfolio. My photographer will get calls years later from brides wanting a certain picture or two. Using Portfolio she can call up the picture and it will request the specific DVD be installed. I am archiving photos that are in .jpg, .dng (digital negative), .crw (canon raw), etc. Some of the .dng files are 26MB each and the .jpg are between 5 and 8MB each. I guess the brides like the details (bigger must be better) ;-) I did google dirsplit and I did not see if you are able to maintain file integrity. As I said earlier, K3B is a very good tool for my purposes. Thanks Robert
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