Hi, Laruin d'Volts wrote on 2009-05-05 17:58:43 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Putting pool / backing up to DVD]: > [...] > Does this mean the pool is streaming to the DVD?
you can't really stream to DVD, and the pool doesn't stream well in any case. > Well, in my case, I simply want everything to backup to a DVD. In > detail, I want to run a live-cd to RAM perhaps from a DVD drive (but > more than likely the CD drive); afterward, I want the DVD pool to > intergrate back into the system. And if anything in the system has > changed, I'll have shutdown scripts or some manual control that tells > backuppc to check if something has changed and then add things to the > pool, which exists on the DVD. That doesn't sound like backups, that sounds like persisting snapshots of system state with a DVD instead of a HDD (however you imagine that should work). I presume you mean a writable variant, not DVD-ROM ... > I talked to someone about putting it on a USB, and that's a nice, > because it can be put onto a mount point. But how would I do something > similar with a DVD? You wouldn't. You're probably looking for rsync and unionfs/aufs (and maybe information on UDF), not BackupPC. Regards, Holger P.S.: I believe you've misspellt your name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
