[gentoo-user] Re: In search of two applikations
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:32:45 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Is there any backup tool, which simply copies the contents of one partition, which is larger than one DVD, to DVDs as plain as possible -- means copies the contents that way, that I simply can mount DVD #n and can easily read and copy the contents? Search the list archives, this came up very recently. i think the program recommended was scdbackup. Note that backing up to DVD/CD file by file will destroy file permissions. I prefer to use squashfs to create a compressed copy of the filesystem and copy that to DVD. then I can mount it and copy files back without losing permissions. sync2cd It's in portage, but the latest version 0.9 is in ~ARCH. And it does store the permission and ownership information along with the files. HTH. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search of two applikations
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:31:52 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: sync2cd It's in portage, but the latest version 0.9 is in ~ARCH. And it does store the permission and ownership information along with the files. That's because it stores files in an archive, which is just what the OP didn't want. There's a choice to be made, use an archive for 100% backups, or store files individually for simple copying, you can't have both. I used squashfs because any live distro with a squashfs enabled kernel can be used to mount the archive and then copy individual files. but there are so many backup systems out there, and everyone has different needs. -- Neil Bothwick Paranoia: A healthy understanding of the nature of the universe. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: In search of two applikations
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:31:52 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: sync2cd It's in portage, but the latest version 0.9 is in ~ARCH. And it does store the permission and ownership information along with the files. That's because it stores files in an archive, Nope ;-) It stores the files as-is, in the same hierarchy as the source tree, and the permission and ownership info in a separate file in the directory .sync2cd at the root of the CD/DVD. This means that if you restore a file by hand with cp, you don't restore the metadata. But if you need it, you can restore it with sync2cd (which incidentally will tell you on which medium the file is stored, in the case of multi-CD backups) and the metadata is restored. There's a choice to be made, use an archive for 100% backups, or store files individually for simple copying, you can't have both. There's still the solution individual files with separate metadata. but there are so many backup systems out there, and everyone has different needs. True. That's why I have written sync2cd in the first place :-) -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search of two applikations
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:43:48 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: That's because it stores files in an archive, Nope ;-) Silly me, I took all the references to an archive on the web page to mean an archive :( I personally wouldn't store backups this way, I prefer a compressed archive when storing on DVD, but it does seem a good compromise, especially when the files you need to restore have easily guessable permissions, removing the need to use special software to restore them. -- Neil Bothwick I wonder how much deeper would the ocean be without sponges. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
