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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:57:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Peter Milliken <PeterM AT resmed DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: RE: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Peter Milliken wrote:

> Next step is I would like to backup some very large files to DVD. I have
> some video files (>13GByte) that I would like to backup across multiple DVD
> discs (-R or -RW - whichever works :-)).
> 
> Has anybody used a DVD burner as a backup mechanism and how do you work out
> the device name to use with tar i.e. I found that a floppy is /dev/fd0 -
> what would a DVD burner device name be? Is there a command that displays
> device names?

Google for "create_devices.sh", and use the script to create a real 
/dev directory.  Cygwin's /dev is a virtual directory, so you can't really 
look at it unless you have a real directory corresponding to it -- that's 
what the script creates.

Also see <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html>.
HTH,
	Igor
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