Re: Opinions Needed - Article on K3b

From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 11/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 03:22:48 +0100

Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> Will K3b back up to a CD ROM incrementally, rather than having to erase
> the whole thing to put something new on it?

k3b is a burning tool, not a backup tool. Don't tell me you use it as a
backup tool.

I personally use backup2l as a backuptool. I let it backup to a seperate
partition that I only mount for this purpose.

The reason is that it was the easiest to restore.
http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ If I would like, I could add something
that puts it on a DVD, although that would need to be a dual layer,
because it is more then 4.2 GB.

Backing up is a serious something and I would personally never let a GUI
tool, let alone a burning software at it. 

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