Re: Archiving large folders to CD
Re: Archiving large folders to CD
- Subject: Re: Archiving large folders to CD
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:52:52 -0800
At 5:02 PM -0600 1/15/02, Zarquon wrote:
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I have several large folders (multiple gigabytes) that I wish to archive to
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CD. I have Toast. Will someone please tell me how to move all this stuff to
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CD without having to manually go in and split these folders up into 650MB
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segments? Ideally, it would go into "Toaster mode" and spit out CDs and ask
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for new ones as it goes along, but I'll accept something that will just
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auto-segment my folders (without having to Stuff them first; I'm aware of
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that option).
I think you'll accept whatever you get. ;)
I wrote a program or script like this back in the 400K floppy days. I think I used HyperCard.
The idea was to go folder by folder alphabetically and copy the directory. Then I would determine if all the files could fit onto the destination and copy them if they could. If not, I would sort the list of files by file size, and using the free space of the destination, look for the largest file that would fit and copy it. Repeat until you can't find a file that will fit.
Change CDs and start copying the files you have left.
To restore, simply copy the folders. If there's a duplicate, then add the files from the duplicate into the first folder. Rinse and repeat.
Sorry I don't have a script all pre-written and debugged for you.
Jon