[ILUG] Joliet filename/tar

[Brian Brazil]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:58:57PM +0100, Dale Dunlea wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to backup a users files to DVD. Unfortunately, they have a
> rather pathological file naming scheme going on which consistently
> causes mkisofs to give errors about having the same joliet name. I
> decided to get around this by just putting the whole thing in a tarball,
> but then mkisofs isn't too happy about dealing with a 4.1 gig file.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Use 'split' to make a number of smaller files from the big file.

Brian

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