How can I archive a 30 GB file?

Posted by Joel Coehoorn on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Joel Coehoorn
Published on 2010-03-24T17:00:43Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 6:03 UTC
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I have a 30 GB zip file containing an archive of digital materials available in the school library that I want to burn to DVD. Of course, 30 Gb is far too large for a single DVD and the content is already zipped. I'm open to ideas, but leaning towards suggestions that will help me automatically spread the file over multiple DVDs, including a simple program to stitch it back together again later.

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