Burning DVD with files>4GB from console

[Andreas Rudisch]

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:48:54 +0100
Bartosz Stec <admin at kkip.pl> wrote:

> My backup script split filesystem dumps to files with size of 4,37 GB (4 
> 588 544 kB). It's just an optimal size to fill out DVDs. At this moment 
> I have to burn them from windows via smb-link becuase I didn't manage to 
> do this task from FreeBSD console due to 2GB/4GB filesize restrictions 
> (growisofs). I'm using freeware CDBurnerXP to burn my backups 
> (ISO9660/UDF/Joliet), and they mount without problems on my FreeBSD BOX, 
> files are fully readable too. However, burning gigabytes of data via 
> slow (about 3.5MB/s) SMB network is just annoing. Is there *any* way to 
> burn DVDs with files>4GB from FreeBSD console?

As a work around you could simply tell your backup script to spilt the data at about 1GB and burn 4 files to one DVD.

Andreas
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