Re: Opinions Needed - Article on K3b

From: PerfectReign (theperfectreign_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:06:14 -0800

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 03:22:48 +0100, houghi took a five-minute break from
flipping burgers to boot the etch-a-sketch and scribble out:

> 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.

Ahem!

KDAR.

I then burn the DVD image to DVD using.... K3B.

Works like a champ. 

-- 
kai 
www.perfectreign.com
linux - genuine windows replacement part

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