Unable to backup 8 GB .mov file

I have an 8.16 GB .mov file that I can easily view in Quicktime on my computer and is on one of my hard drives. My computer has begun dying on me frequently and I'm trying to get my important files backed up (this one is important to me) to an external hard drive. This file will not copy to my external Lacie drive, or my other hard drive. I get an error that reads: "The finder cannot complete the operation because some data could not be read or written. (Error code -36)" This usually happens after it is a ways through the copying process.
As far as I know the largest writable DVDs are 7GBs?
Does anyone know a good way/program to compress this file in order to burn it to a DVD, or a program that can repair the file or convert it to another format?
I put it on my hard drive 5 years ago so remembering the details is a little sketchy, it's a home video I believe I put there by attaching a VCR to a camcorder to my computer.
Thanks for your time,
M

Open the file, say it is an hour for arguments sake, not sure how long it is for 8GB but we'll say that. Go to the beginning press I (in) to set the in point. Then move the cursor to 15:00 minutes. Press O (out) to set the out point.
Then do CMD+C (copy) CMD+N (new player window) CMD+V (paste) and that 15 minute chunk is in a new player. Save as , say Movie 1 of 4.mov
Move to 15:00, set in and at 30:00 set out. Copy and paste that into a new player and save as Movie 2 of 4 . Repeat for 30 - 45 and 45 - 60.
You now have the same movie not recompressed in 4 files each 2 GB in size. Save them on DVD's or the like.
Reassembly is the reverse. Open 1 of 4. Set cursor to the end of the clip , e.g at 15:00. Open 2 of 4. CMD+A (select all) CMD+C (copy) then click on the 1st player window (the one at the end of 15:00) and CMD+V paste.
You now have a 30 minute movie. Repeat pasting 3 and 4 of 4 to the end of the first one (well 3 gets pasted to the end of what was 2 and is now the 30 minute mark and 4 gets pasted to the end of that activity which will now be 45 minutes long).
Save as Movie "all of all" or whatever name you like. It's back in one piece. QT will cut to the frame precisely. You can set the time indicator to a frame indicator by CTRL/Right + click on it. More accurate that way. To make your 4 chunks.
Kirk was saying you probably have a drive originally in FAT32 that works on Windows/mac but has a 4GB maximum file limit. If you can back it all up onto some other drive for a while and repartition in HFS+ for OSX you won't have the problem with large files. But no, don't repartition/format while it has the only copy of the data on it.

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