I have a bunch of files I want to put onto CD-Roms. There are a bunch of them, to cross say 10 or 20 CDs. The files are in multiple directories, of multiple sizes. I’d like the files to end up on the CDs as copied versions of themselves so that I can mount the CD and view or copy the files. I.e. I specifically don’t want them tarred into one .zip-like file on each CD, as most backup programs do. So, some directories that are larger than one CD will be split across multiple CDs, and directories that are smaller than one CD will be amalgamated together onto one CD. (There will be no single files larger than a CD).
Seems simple, but I can’t find a program (or even decently-documented approach) to do it.
I’m running Windows XP and also have Cygwin. I’d prefer a Cygwin/Dos/command line approach, but I’m happy with a Windows solution as well.
Well, you should be able to do that with any decent CD burning program - just put half the files in folder A onto one CD, the other half onto another CD, folders B and C onto yet another CD, etc. It may be easier to separate the files into CD-sized groups on your hard drive first; TreeSize lets you check the sizes of many folders at a glance.
Or do you need an automated solution? I’m not aware of any backup programs that work the way you describe, but there are an awful lot of backup programs out there.
Thanks, Mr2001, but I’m looking for an automated solution. So the idea is, I have say 20Gig worth of stuff, and I want the solution to break it cleanly into 650M per CD, but not break files apart. Basically, it would copy files to a CD until it’s full, then ask for another, copy till it’s full, etc., till its copied all files.
I know there’s an archive bit on files, and I believe that copying a file sets it. So, it seems that writing a quick script to do this would be easy. But I’d prefer to use the work of others.
By the way, I use and love Treesize myself. Mainly I use it when I run out of hard disk space. it’s a great tool for figuring out where your real wastage is happening.
I’m surprised CD-burning programs don’t do this automatically. I’ve wanted to do this several times and have had to pick and choose files so that I didn’t go over the CD’s limit.