I would like to use a CD-R as a special remote for one of my repositories. I'm not sure what the best way to do this is. I'm thinking aomething like:
- Make a new directory
- Add the directory as a special remote using type=directory
- Copy the files to the special remote
- Create an iso of the directory and burn it
Does that sound right?
I'm not sure how I can do stuff like tell git-annex that the maximum size of the remote is 700MB and that (after the initial push) the remote should be considered read only. I intend to have multiple of these CD-R/directory remotes for the one annex. Has anybody done anything like this before?
This was previously discussed in http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Managing_a_large_number_of_files_archived_on_many_pieces_of_read-only_medium___40__E.G._DVDs__41__/.
I don't think that CDs/DVDs are a particularly good fit for git-annex, but it seems a couple of users have gotten something working.