Re: Dump a Directory to CD?

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Rob and anyone else that wants to help,

OK, I downloaded the file (dar) and looked at the man pages.  It looks like 
it is designed to replace the files where it found them.  I.e. it is a 
backup utility.  I want a storage utility.

Note I quickly came upon a problem.  Mandrake makes good use of 
supermount.  It works, and it also writes DOS compatible floppies.  So no 
more fussing with disks to get them right.  But the first thing I read on 
dar is "disable supermount".  I don't know how to do that, and would surely 
mess up my system.

I think some of you could write what I want in 10 or 20 lines of perl or shell:

0) prompt for CR when disk installed
1) read 81 .fits files (any order) from the specified directory
2) write them to cdrom
3) eject disk
Continue at 0) until directory is exhausted of files.

OK, even I can do this.  But it will take me a couple of days as there will 
be something that I have to read and learn.

Will someone please write the loop?  OK, I can fix anything close in 
perl.  It is just the regular expression stuff and how to make the list pop 
81 things off it at a time that would take me the time.

Tom Droege


At 09:41 AM 4/29/03 -0600, you wrote:

>I just ran across this a couple of days ago, and have not tried it out 
>yet.  Take a look at http://dar.linux.free.fr.  It looks like it might do 
>what you want, even with DVD's
>
>Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net> wrote ..
> > Someone may know how to do this easily in linux.
> >
> > I want to dump a directory that contains more than one cd can hold to
> > cds.  It would be nice if the program did something to wake me up when
> > it
> > had filled one cd, like eject the last one or beep.  It should then be
> > relatively easy to get one or all the files back into a directory.  I.e.
> > I
> > would prefer if the directory structure on the disks was standard.  No
> > need
> > to compress as this would not save much.
> >
> > Tom Droege