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Many of you know me as an OpenBSD user but the problem I am trying to solve is not unique to OpenBSD. Namely over the years I aggregated about 50-60 GB of pictures and videos of my kids and family which is the most valuable data I have on my computers. I used to backup that videos periodically by burning additional DVDs once I accumulate another 4.xxx GB of data or whatever it can be burned on the typical DVD and send it to multiple family members/grant parents so that in the case of disaster I can recover. At this point I would like to have a script which will automatically split 60 GB of data into the chunks appropriate for writing on DVDs which I will store in safe deposit box. I am familiar
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You may want to look into sysutils/shunt, which I used to use for this purpose. You can contact its $MAINTAINER if you have any questions.

I haven't used optical media for backup in a very long time, and these days, my critical data is backed up commercially via sysutils/tarsnap.
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You may want to look into sysutils/shunt, which I used to use for this purpose. You can contact its $MAINTAINER if you have any questions.
That worked as a charm. Maintainer was extremely responsive . I would like to worn people against blindly cutting and pasting commands from the package website

http://www.serice.net/shunt/

as they are written for Linux. Tar is actually gtar and cpio have Linux specific options. I have not played enough with pax.
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