[NBLUG/talk] Backups to DVD?

[Sean]

Check out this forum that I found, as it gives the command on how to
tar and split the resulting archive up into smaller segments, such as
multiple 4GB files (pipe the output into the "split" command). Of
course you'd probably want to use "tar -cvzf /foo/ ..." in order to
get a .gz instead of a .tar.bz2 as it does in the forum.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/tar-split-question-605013/

This forum also shows how you can utilize the decompression of the
split files without exceeding the 4GB file size limit if you have that
file system limitation (some sort of decompression on the fly instead
of re-combining the packages and then decompressing).

Supposedly "tar -M" does something similar, but for whatever reason
the questioner of this forum says that it doesn't apply for this use.

Sean