Other than DiscSpan... What can I use to backup JPG images to DVD

[TheBigAmbulance]

I'm trying to find a burner app that can span discs. I've never been a big fan of discspan although others swear by it.

[dibl]

Re: Other than DiscSpan... What can I use to backup JPG images to DVD

I've been contemplating the same problem. Are you going to use the double-layered 8.5GB DVDs?

Google turns up these choices:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.0/system/dar/

http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html

[TheBigAmbulance]

Re: Other than DiscSpan... What can I use to backup JPG images to DVD

Well, I've been trying to decide on that or just burn up the stack of 4.7 DVDs that I have.

I'll give those apps a peek.

[dibl]

Re: Other than DiscSpan... What can I use to backup JPG images to DVD

This one is has a current package in the Debian repos: http://danborn.net/multiCD/

[blobfish]

Re: Other than DiscSpan... What can I use to backup JPG images to DVD

terminal in empty folder

tar cvf pictures_backup.tar some_pictures_folder
split --bytes=4400m -d pictures_backup.tar pictures_backup.tar_

burn tar files with suffix not the original.

to restore: copy files from dvd's to empty directory and terminal.

cat *>pictures_backup.tar
tar xvf pictures_backup.tar

I have never been impressed with burned media for reliability, so I usually burn 2 copies of each dvd and actually copy them back on the hard drive to ensure they work. K3b verify option has been flaky here for a while, so I don't trust it. I am really paranoid so I usually make a set of parity files with the par2 package. I make enough so that I can rebuild an entire disk. These commands can be piped together, but I find it easier to follow with separate commands. Could be scripted and maybe even be added to a custom dolphin service menu.