[MacDV] Re: Looking for more storage?

[Michael Winter]

On Jan 8, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Peter van der Linden wrote:

> The current generation of consumer DVD's only go up to 4.7GB capacity. 
>  The next generation will go to 9GB, but they won't be available in 
> volume for a year or more.  So you need to back up to disk.  The 
> alternative is to find some software that can split backups across 
> several dvds.

If you have a .mac account, Apple's Backup program will split things up 
across mutliple CDs or DVDs. The only thing I'm not sure about is how 
it handles large files. I don't know if it can split a single large 
file across two DVDs or not, which could lead to a lot of wasted space.

-Mike