Re: [opensuse] About Backing Up

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The Sunday 2007-02-18 at 15:30 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:

On Sunday 18 February 2007 15:14, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I wish we had some open backup software as reliable as that one was, but
using modern media, like dvds, for instance.


I spent a lot of time working with DAR and daromizer which is a front end to
DAR.

DAR is quite flexible on its output and with daromizer to setup most of the
backups... it worked quite well.

I have dar and kdar on my todo list.


However...... I found that DVD's are not that reliable... when you write
them yourself. And that goes for DVD's created in a TV-DVD-recorder or on a
PC. I don't use DVD's for backup any more.

And that's what I mean we lack in Linux: a good backup program that takes
into account unreliable media, producing reliable backups even if media
are faulty. I mean, the backup media has to include sufficient redundancy
in the low level format to recover from read errors: this is what the old
MsDos programs did for backing up to floppies and such.

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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