On Tue, May 20 2003, Rog�rio Brito wrote: > On May 19 2003, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > Hi.. is there a free program for backing up specific folders on the > > hard disk onto a CD or external hard disk? I mean something that > > doesn't overwrite files that haven't changed etc. and only makes the > > necessary addition/deletion/replacement... > > This thread is quite appropriate, as I've currently looking > for ways to automate more and more of my tasks. > > I'm also looking to *wisely* use tools to lower the effort > sufficient to restore data in a crash-recovery situation > and making my data cleaner/cross-platform as well as > generating portable backups are both vital parts of my plan. > > I want to make backups of files that are not very much > compressible (mpeg files, for instance) and that potentially > span multiple CD-RWs. > > The closest to the ideal situation that I found was to use my > CD-RW with packet writing tools. This way, I think that I can > just use tar with its multivolume switch (-M) and backup the > way I want. > > If, on the other hand, one wishes to use the CD-RW as a live > filesystem for day-to-day work, I would think that rsync would > do the trick. > > More information about packet writing can be found at > <http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/> and recent patches at > <http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.4/>. User > space tools are already packaged for Debian in form of the > udftools package. > > I am compiling my kernel (on i386) with packet writing support > right now and I'll keep the list posted on the results I get. > I'd appreciate if other people did the same.
Sounds interesting, I'd love to hear how well pktcdvd works for something like that today. I haven't tested on ppc hardware, I suppose I should know that I have a superdrive enabled beast... -- Jens Axboe
