[gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup
Does anyone know of an app/script for doing a multi-DVD backup of my ~/? My ~/ is 10GB so I will need something that could do a little compression and create as many DVD iso images as needed. I was thinking of just tar.gzing my ~/ and then splitting that file to sizes to fit on a DVD and then make the ISO. I was hoping for a script/app that is tested since I don't want to lose my data and I have to format my computer soon. Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup
On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:23 PM, JimD wrote: Does anyone know of an app/script for doing a multi-DVD backup of my ~/? My ~/ is 10GB so I will need something that could do a little compression and create as many DVD iso images as needed. I was thinking of just tar.gzing my ~/ and then splitting that file to sizes to fit on a DVD and then make the ISO. I was hoping for a script/app that is tested since I don't want to lose my data and I have to format my computer soon. look at freshmeat.net for scdbackup. it can be called with sdvdbackup and will span dvds. I back up my mail server totally to 4 dvds. you can tell it what filesystems to backup, or directories. it figures it all out for you. be warned that growisofs is a prereq for it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup
John Jolet wrote: look at freshmeat.net for scdbackup. it can be called with sdvdbackup and will span dvds. I back up my mail server totally to 4 dvds. you can tell it what filesystems to backup, or directories. it figures it all out for you. be warned that growisofs is a prereq for it. Thanks for the tip! Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup
John Jolet wrote: look at freshmeat.net for scdbackup. it can be called with sdvdbackup and will span dvds. I back up my mail server totally to 4 dvds. you can tell it what filesystems to backup, or directories. it figures it all out for you. be warned that growisofs is a prereq for it. Do you do the ISO or afio backup? If you do the ISO backup, do your file permissions get hosed? I see that the utility puts a script to restore directory permissions on the last CD/DVD in the set, however it didn't mention anything about file permissions. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup
On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:29 PM, JimD wrote: John Jolet wrote: look at freshmeat.net for scdbackup. it can be called with sdvdbackup and will span dvds. I back up my mail server totally to 4 dvds. you can tell it what filesystems to backup, or directories. it figures it all out for you. be warned that growisofs is a prereq for it. Do you do the ISO or afio backup? If you do the ISO backup, do your file permissions get hosed? I see that the utility puts a script to restore directory permissions on the last CD/DVD in the set, however it didn't mention anything about file permissions. I can't remember which I do. I'm not terribly concerned about permissions, as for the most part, i'm concerned with being able to restore mostly /home and /var/spool/mail. the rest is just in case, as it were. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
