Backup a file bigger than DVD without retrospect?

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pfflampfflam
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I have a media file that I do not want to compress and I want to back it up, it is 5.61 Gigs.



I imagine that there is a way to do it onto two disks (DVD) without destroying the file . . . I have Backup through .Mac, but that seems to only backup entire volumes.



Anybody know of any options?

I don't seem to have the money for Retrospect . . . or any useful #s laying around . . .



any advice would be wonderful!

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    karl kuehnkarl kuehn Posts: 756member
    My two suggestions would be to look into tar (man tar) or to look into making a disk image, and then using the command line to split it into sections. Sine we seem to be talking about a single file, it is probably some sort of video file, so compressing it is probably worthless (compressed video should be fairly close to random data).



    In both cases you will have to have both sections of the archive in the same place to de-compress them, so plan on having lots of disk space available.
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  • Reply 2 of 7
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Karl Kuehn

    My two suggestions would be to look into tar (man tar) or to look into making a disk image, and then using the command line to split it into sections. Sine we seem to be talking about a single file, it is probably some sort of video file, so compressing it is probably worthless (compressed video should be fairly close to random data).



    In both cases you will have to have both sections of the archive in the same place to de-compress them, so plan on having lots of disk space available.



    Now you're talkin'



    about this 'command line' thing?



    what do you mean?

    How would I do it?

    . . . since I have never used 'command line' except to get to root once . . .



    I just made a Disk image of the file (in a folder) . . . how would I pproceed in dividing the image . .



    I take it that you mean such a division that I could put both parts onto a desktop and then open them as one? Am I right?



    yeehaw . . . I feel an immanent solution coming on . . . I hope.

    signed: Desperately Waiting for More . . .

    otherwise known as pfflam
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  • Reply 3 of 7
    karl kuehnkarl kuehn Posts: 756member
    MacOS X Hints article on the subject
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  • Reply 4 of 7
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    I think that's good . . . . though I really have little idea what to do with that script . . . . do I put it into the Terminal?

    then drop my file onto it?



    Hmmm . . . . I guess I'll experiment with it and see what I can do.



    But I'm still open to other ideas too . . . .
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  • Reply 5 of 7
    karl kuehnkarl kuehn Posts: 756member
    Re-read the script, then look in Applications->AppleScript...
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  • Reply 6 of 7
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Karl Kuehn

    Re-read the script, then look in Applications->AppleScript...



    Cool . . . . made the applicatin but it didn't work . . . kept getting an error.
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  • Reply 7 of 7
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    I came across this app . . . which seems to be made from a variant of the script mentioned: MACHACHA

    It partitions files nicely . . . as far as I can tell so far.
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