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The Sunday 2007-02-18 at 15:30 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday 18 February 2007 15:14, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > I wish we had some open backup software as reliable as that one was, but
> > using modern media, like dvds, for instance.
>
>
> I spent a lot of time working with DAR and daromizer which is a front end to
> DAR.
>
> DAR is quite flexible on its output and with daromizer to setup most of the
> backups... it worked quite well.
I have dar and kdar on my todo list.
> However...... I found that DVD's are not that reliable... when you write
> them yourself. And that goes for DVD's created in a TV-DVD-recorder or on a
> PC. I don't use DVD's for backup any more.
And that's what I mean we lack in Linux: a good backup program that takes
into account unreliable media, producing reliable backups even if media
are faulty. I mean, the backup media has to include sufficient redundancy
in the low level format to recover from read errors: this is what the old
MsDos programs did for backing up to floppies and such.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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