Hi Bruno, Hi Mark,
I tried WinZip, but apparently it doesn't like something as it aborts each
time I try it.
Tar works! I don't know why I didn't think of it before! I use tar all
the time to post web content. I have a duplicate of the web site directory
structures on my PCs (all Windows XP Pro) and when I make updates, I tar
the affected directories so I have only one file to upload rather than
thousands.
Anyway, tar works! It is slow, but it runs in the background without
killing the PC and I can burn the resulting tar file in a matter of minutes.
Thanks!
John
At 2006-12-30 01:50 AM, John K. wrote:
>Does anyone know what the maximum number of files and/or directories you
>can put on a Data DVD (single-layer) is? I think I may be running into a
>DVD directory limitation.
>
>My search hasn't turned up anything, and my backup process (Roxio) appears
>to be choking on the volume of files and directories rather than the data
>volume.
>
>Below is a description of what is being "archived."
>
>The data consists of snapshots of web pages (made with wget). The
>snapshots are captured every 15 minutes by a PHP script running as a "run
>at boot" task on Windows XP Pro. Most of the files are small (0k to 10k
>bytes) but there are millions of them in the course of a month.
>
>The directory structure is:
>
>Page_name\yyyy\mm\dd\Page_name_yyyy-mm-dd_HH-MM\files
>
>Below is a sample listing of several sequential directory names:
>
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_00-00
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_00-15
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_00-30
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_00-45
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_01-00
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_01-15
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_01-30
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_01-45
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_02-00
>page_021\2006\12\28\page_021_2006-12-28_02-15
>
>Each day adds about 12,200 files per web page (on average) and about 132
>MB of used storage (on average). Thus, there about 378,200 files per web
>page per month, utilizing about 4.092 GB of storage. Space wise, the
>files should fit. In reality, I can't make it work. I can get about 9 to
>10 days of files for a single web page on a DVD at best, and that is if
>I'm willing to let Roxio run overnight to do the burning (it takes HOURS
>to burn those 10 days of data while the system just thrashes).
>
>To give you some idea as to the thrashing that occurs, if, with nothing
>running on the PC, you right-click on the parent directory for a month for
>one web page, then select "properties" to get a count of the directories,
>files, and space allocated, you should plan on checking back in 40 minutes
>or so for the totals.
>
>Oh, and the PC is a dual-core 3800 Athlon with 2 GB RAM and 2+ terabytes
>of disc space (used for professional photography).
>
>I need to back up the files to DVD, but if anyone has some better ideas as
>to how to do it, please feel free to make suggestions.
>
>Thanks!
>
>John
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