[wellylug] looking for a lazy cd-backup solution

[Damon Lynch]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 18:23, Ilia Pavlenko wrote:
> > tar is your friend
> >
> > gzip is also your friend
> 
> no, I want readable cdr's :) not a cdr containing one huge 640mb tgz file
> (which will require a heaps of room if I need to pull out 1 file only !)

Are you aware of the very real limitations in filename / directory
length on a CD?  You simply can't dump files with long names onto a CD,
or recurse deep into directories.   (Everyday) CD file sytems don't work
like that.

Damon