On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:40:42AM -0700, Hans Fugal wrote: > Good ideas, but... > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 at 09:16 -0700, Derek Davis wrote: > > Why does it have to be CD-RW? > > It could be CDR, but then you end up with coasters. I like the reuse > idea of CD-RW. Why CD? Because that's the most common decent-sized > cheap removeable media thing going on. DVD would be fine too, if I had a > DVD writer.
We had a discussion a few months ago here about a USB DVD burner. You can find decent DVD burners for ~$40, and a USB clamshell for another ~$40, and away you go. Or skip the USB clamshell and back up over your net. Then media, of course. I like DVD+RW because you don't have to stream the data to the burner. It handles gaps in the data. That's important on USB. I'm working on a perl script to solve exactly this problem. It uses tar and then slices and dices to DVD size, then burns the first one for you. But it is very configurable. Once I have something I'll annouce it here and you can carp, er, comment on it. The reason I went for tar over a live file system (one of your requirements) is that I'm lazy. Tar solves the problem of squeezing as much data as possible on to each of several DVDs (if neecessary) without doing a lot of coding. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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