[ILUG] Joliet filename/tar

[Dale Dunlea]

> > 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.

I went with the tarball because a windows user can just pop the thin in
their drive, open it with winzip, and browse for files they want to
restore. Unfortunately, that won't work so well with a split tarball. I
suppose that's ultimately what I'm looking for - a browsable soltuion.

Regards,
Dale