Re: backup to dvd

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: 24 Jan 2004 03:25:37 GMT

Clinging to sanity, Kelsey Bjarnason <kelseyb@lightspeed.bc.ca> mumbled into her beard:
> About the best option I've seen so far is making a tarball, using split,
> then writing the chunks. To me, this seems like an excessively ugly
> solution.

Start with Amanda... <http://amanda.org/>

 Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a
 backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a
 single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single
 large capacity tape drive. Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar
 facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running
 multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions can also use SAMBA to back
 up Microsoft Windows hosts.

Add in Tivano's "Amanda CDRW-taper"
  <http://www.tivano.de/software/amanda/Installation.shtml>

We use Amanda to backup various systems at work, albeit not using the
"cdrw-taper" package.

Note that there are Debian packages for all of this, so it has been
used enough to make it worth packaging... 

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