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RE: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Peter Milliken <PeterM at resmed dot com dot au>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:57:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar
- References: <274A369893F5FB4099345F006439D9870316C30E@bella.corp.resmed.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Peter Milliken wrote:
> Next step is I would like to backup some very large files to DVD. I have
> some video files (>13GByte) that I would like to backup across multiple DVD
> discs (-R or -RW - whichever works :-)).
>
> Has anybody used a DVD burner as a backup mechanism and how do you work out
> the device name to use with tar i.e. I found that a floppy is /dev/fd0 -
> what would a DVD burner device name be? Is there a command that displays
> device names?
Google for "create_devices.sh", and use the script to create a real
/dev directory. Cygwin's /dev is a virtual directory, so you can't really
look at it unless you have a real directory corresponding to it -- that's
what the script creates.
Also see <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html>.
HTH,
Igor
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