I, personally, have a rather complicated strategy. I rip all my CD's to FLAC for archival purposes, but do to disk space costs, I keep my online storage in MP3.
I store my MP3's on a RAID array, and backup weekly to a second hard drive in an external moveable enclosure. My FLAC's I currently keep on an external hard drive, which I backup to DVD. I then keep this collection of DVD's offsite (ok, at my desk at work). I threw together a couple scripts to manage backing stuff up to optical discs. These are aimed at systems which are write-mostly, ie, you keep adding new content without really updating what's already there. My scripts are at: http://koldware.com/SlimStuff/MusicUtils/makeBackupSet and http://koldware.com/SlimStuff/MusicUtils/makeISOs The former script maintains a database of files, and allocates the files to various DVD's. The latter script takes that database and creates the individual ISO images that you can use to burn the physical DVD's. Using the makeBackupSet script, you can grow the database, and it will add to the end of the backup set. Sample usage would be: makeBackupSet -db /etc/MusicBackup.db -k -p -f -v /music/FLAC This will create (or extend) the database in /etc/MusicBackup.db. It will attempt to keep all the files in a directory together (-k), pack directories into the disks it's creating (-p), fill the last previously created disk (-f) and tell you about it all (-v). You can then run makeISOs on this DB: makeISOs -d /tmp/FlacBackup -i ~/tmp/Backup -m -s -c -p 79-80 which will generate ISO images of discs 79 and 80, call tmp ~/tmp/Backup.79 and ~/tmp/Backup.80. They're kindof poorly documented, your best bet is to read the code for help. Maybe I'll update the -h screens. -- kolding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kolding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
