I have a rough and ready script cobbled together from several others that I use to back up to DVD+RW. It makes use of userland tools dvd+rw-tools http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
In particular I use growisofs which is a front end to mkisofs which allows for multiple sessions to be written to a dvd+rw. The dvd's do not have to be pre formatted as they are formatted as they are written to. I use this system on my smaller clients (3-10 seats) where I know the amount of data to be backed up is not large. I use a system where a back-up to dvd of the /home directory + relevent system files custom-templates, password files, mysql-dump etc is done nightly as a tar.gz file. I use two DVD's rotated daily so one will hold the back-ups for the odd days and the other for the even days. On friday night I blank the DVD before starting the back-up. The other DVD gets blanked the following week (lucky theres 7 days in a week). If the back-up gets larger than a maximum of 4 daily back-ups on a disc then I increase the number of disks in the rotation. I have found that the main use for the back-ups apart from disaster recovery (never needed to use it for that) is to restore deleted files, so I install samba-recycle bin on all servers I build and the contents of the recycle bin are backed-up. I then delete the contents of the recycle bins as part of the post back-up. When I get a chance between work and my current project (getting *Asterisk working on SME as a VOIP gateway) I will tidy the script up, create a panel and release it. Jon Blakely Computer Troubleshooter -Howick New Zealand +64 21 232 6419 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Devlyn Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2003 2:39 p.m. To: Devinfo Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup to DVD Hi Folks, I've noticed that DVD burners have come way down in price to the $125-175USD range. DVD Media can be bought in bulk for ~$0.60 each. To me, that's a compelling reason to begin looking at DVD backup options for e-smith. Has anybody put any thought/effort into something like that? Do you know of any packages for Linux that has support for DVD burning? I'll start doing some research, but if anybody has already done some foot work, pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks, -Devlyn -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.545 / Virus Database: 339 - Release Date: 27/11/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.545 / Virus Database: 339 - Release Date: 27/11/2003 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
