On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:55:15AM -0600, John Reese wrote:
> I too need to back up some pretty hefty systems (~ 8 GB), so not only
> will I need to write to DVD instead of iso9660 (<= 700 MB), but I'll
> also need to span DVDs. I looked up some manuals on dd and mkisofs,
> and it is not clear to me that either of them can do this. Anyone else
> out there encounter this problem? Better yet, has anyone resolved it?

Have you considered using tape backups?  I know the volume-spanning
problem has been resolved with that medium.  Or just get >8 Gb tapes.

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