Re: Utility for backing up/archiving to DVD-R? [REPOST]

From: John Stumbles (postmaster_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:14:09 GMT

Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:
> begin John Stumbles dedi ki:
>
>
>>I'm looking for ways to back up and archive data to DVD-R and CD-R[W].
>
> --8<--
>
> See http://cdbk.sourceforge.net/
> It should handle all your needs except bare metal recovery, for which you
> can either boot from a floppy and restore from cdbk archives, or you can
> use a bootable backup utility such as
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondo/ or
> http://mkcdrec.sourceforge.net/
>

Thanks. I'd also come across multicd (mentioned in another thread on
this ng) which seemed to promise most of what I needed (although it
writes disks as ext2 filesystems which have to be mounted as a loopback
device rather than being accessible directly from any other system - I'm
not sure what the advantage of this is, but cdbk seems to do the same).

It should only have been a matter of telling multicd that my disk is c.
4200M instead of c. 650M, but Perl's integer representation only goes up
to 4G :-(

Any Perl gurus(/monks, whatever) suggest how to get round this?

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