Re: Backup across multiple DVD's

On 08/01/2007 08:26 PM, Rashkae wrote:
NoOp wrote:
Anyone have a good utility or advise for performing a system backup
across multiple DVD's? I've tried simplebackup & K3b but neither of
those seem to allow backing up to more than one DVD. I have about 30GB
that I'm trying to save - standard /home /etc directories.


Do you have enough free harddrive space to store a compressed copy of
your backup set? I just use tar, split and growisofs (or k3b, if you
prefer).

Examples:

tar -C / -xj home | split -b 2000m - /somewhere/home_date.tar.bz.

Then I use regular dvd burning utils to burn the resulting files to
disc, two files per disc.

It's not as elegant as auto-backup software, but it's very reliable.. I
don't need any special software to restore if I ever have too, the
backups are near universal.


Note that if you're backing up /home like this, you'll have to find
somewhere outside of home to store the backup files, or use tar command
options to exclude the directory where you put them.



Only 12GB left on the drive, but using your tar example I can do bits at
a time -thanks! I'm doing a test burn now using just regular copy to DVD
just to make sure that the write is working properly. I also found the
DAR util: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ so I plan on exploring that a bit
more as well. Someone gave me a stack of 50 DVD's so I've plenty of
media to experiment with :-)

Thanks again.


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