Re: backup to dvd

From: Michael W. Cocke (cocke_at_catherders.com)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:40:52 -0500

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:05:11 -0800, Kelsey Bjarnason
<kelseyb@lightspeed.bc.ca> wrote:

>[snips]
>
>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:11:45 +0000, Michael Lodman wrote:
>
>>> That would be too easy. As would looking on freshmeat. The OP wants
>>> you to do the searching for him.
>>
>> I did do a google seach. I got back a ton of results on backing up video
>> dvds.
>>
>>> I quite like this one:
>>>
>>> http://www.k3b.org/
>
>And it ain't quite as easy as it sounds, either. I've been looking for
>decent backup options for CDR for about a week now.
>
>"Decent" here involves a couple of key points. First, it should be able
>to be handed a directory (or set of them) and walk into them, collecting
>the files to be backed up. Second, it should be able to understand that
>not everything will fit on a single 700Mb CD, and partition the backup
>appropriately. Third, if possible, it should compress the data as it's
>being written. It would also be nice if it "got" incremental backups.
>
>K3B is great for burning CDs... not so good for backups; it simply tosses
>up its hands in disgust at the notion of trying to cope with 11Gb of data
>and 700Mb blanks.
>
>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.
>
>Still looking. :)
>

Dar

Mike-

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