Program to backup files to DVD

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I'm looking for something that can take, let's say 20gb+ of files (none that are by themselves bigger than a DVD), and separate the files and burn them to DVDs. I don't want to have to use any special software to read the files off of the DVDs either.

Does anyone know of anything that works like that?

 

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DVDSpan http://hcidesign.com/dvdspan/

 

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Yeah, I found that shortly after posting this thread, but was hoping to find something with some command line usage so I could script it.

 

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Out of curiousity, what's to script?

 

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First and foremost, we have a server that has thousands of PDFs ( a lot of gigabytes, I might add ). Those PDFs will get moved to another server that renames them (to just a bunch of numbers) and imports some information into a database.

We want to make a backup of the PDFs BEFORE they move to the 2nd server. We also want this to be fully automated. The process that moves the files to the 2nd server is a vb script I wrote, but I was hoping to find a separate application to split the files up into groups of 4.X gb. If I can't find anything, I'll write a script for that too.

The second use is simply for backing up people's My Docs when it's full of 30gb of MP3s. But I can probably use Roxio/Nero for that, since it won't be automated.

 

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Ok. Well, for the pdf deal, I think you're probably going to need to do the script. Maybe someone else knows something else, but I've never heard of a cli program that'll split files like that.

For customer data, though, DVDSpan works out pretty well. That portion of it is automated as can be, you just have to change out discs when one finishes.

 

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Yeah, I just did a test run with mkisofs and cdrecord. I'm just going to rework my 'mover' script to work with those.