Back up help

[Andrew Shugg]

Matthew Rossi said:
> Hi.  Currently I am in the process of burning my files onto blank dvd-r's as
> i will have a new computer arrive in the new year.  I have a set of videos
> that I dubbed from a miniDV tape using firewire and kino (you need to run
> kino in root to capture using firewire).  I have burnt the first disc, but I
> have another 12 GB to go.  I have 4 videos here.  2 of them are 1.8GB, 1 is
> 3.6GB and the other is 5.1GB.  I can only burn to single-layer dvds.  How
> can I fit these videos onto disc without compressing too much (I want to
> retain as much quality on it as possible)?  Thank you in advance.

If you want to hang on to your originals you can fit them onto smaller
media by creating multi-volume archives (set volume size to around
4480mb) with a file compression program such as p7zip (you turn file
compression off though as the savings with raw video data are not worth
the time it takes to compress).

If you're paranoid and/or worried about losing the whole lot if a disc
gets damaged, look at par2 for creating recovery archives from a file or
file set.  (Kind of a file-level RAID, allowing you to rebuild damaged
files from redundant information.)

Andrew.

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