[ILUG] Joliet filename/tar

[Niall Walsh]

Dale Dunlea wrote:

>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.
>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/05/msg00945.html

Basically using -joliet-long to mkisofs lets it use filenames upto 103 
charectors and sounds like it works fine on Linux and Windows.

Perhaps this will solve the problem without having to resort to putting 
archives on the DVD (doesn't sound like you needed the compression)?

Niall Walsh