[plug] Multi-disk CD backups

[Craig Ringer]

> I'm curious as to people's solutions to burning 10GB+ of data to CDs.

I've always put it in the "too damnn frustrating" bin and used DAT tapes 
or a spare hard disk. I'd only be happy with multi-volume CD archives if 
I could read any part of any of them, except of course files too big to 
fit on one CD. In other words,  ISO9660 only, and avoiding splitting 
files across CDs where possible.

I tried to do something up in Perl to do this then call mkisofs, but it 
grew tangled, complex and painful as I began to see all the various 
issues involved. I put it in the "too hard basket" and moved on to more 
practical things. Maybe I'll try again later.

Nonetheless, the muti-volume TAR archive sounds like the closest to a 
sane option you have if you have to use CDs. I take it that burning the 
data to two DVDs instead is not an option?

Craig Ringer