Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-08-04 Thread David Baron
On Friday 04 August 2006 00:22, Bill Thompson wrote: On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:11:32 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'll try it all and let you know how it works out. The problem is that the partial burns are now useless except for scratch. Are you using DVD-RW disks? I

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-08-03 Thread Bill Thompson
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:14:15 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. I got daromizer to produce and burn one (smaller) slice. Could not coax

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-08-03 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:37, Bill Thompson wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:14:15 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. I got

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-08-03 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:11:32 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'll try it all and let you know how it works out. The problem is that the partial burns are now useless except for scratch. Are you using DVD-RW disks? I did have a problem with daromizer the first time I used it

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:38:05 -0600 Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Requirement: Single touch, full-backup? Faster speeds in case interation is required? Well, that would be nice. :) In the old days when my biggest disk was 1.6 gig, I got a DAT tape drive precisely for easy backup - and

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 1, 2006, at 11:52 PM, David E. Fox wrote: [Long discourse on backups and how they were done ten years ago.] 2. External hard disks are slightly less portable than DVD's. 3. External hard disks *might* take up slightly more phhysical space over DVD's, depending on the size/density of

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:54:10PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:20:48 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DVD's are more likely to survive EMP. Relevant if your data have to survive a nuclear war if you do. Ironic, given the fact that I've written many DDV-RWs that

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:54:49AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: On Jul 1, 2006, at 11:52 PM, David E. Fox wrote: [Long discourse on backups and how they were done ten years ago.] 2. External hard disks are slightly less portable than DVD's. 3. External hard disks *might* take up slightly

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 00:54:49 -0600 Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plug in a USB drive, rsync, unplug it and store is somewhere safe. Done. Anything else is a waste of time, which is the most precious thing you have. People with nothing better to do mess around with

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:20:48 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DVD's are more likely to survive EMP. Relevant if your data have to survive a nuclear war if you do. Ironic, given the fact that I've written many DDV-RWs that have proved later (in maybe a few months) to have developed scads of bad

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-21 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:38:05PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: Some requirements that might push someone back toward removable media instead of disk are: DVD's are more likely to survive EMP. Relevant if your data have to survive a nuclear war if you do. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 21:52, Bill Thompson wrote: The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. I have been having this problem as well. If you take a look at your

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-20 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. dar

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Thompson
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:14:15 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 snip Incrementals are still going to take some time provided one has to load the backup media onto the system before proceeding,

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Thompson
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:19:36 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-20 Thread Nate Duehr
David E. Fox wrote: Let's apply a little engineering here: If I restate your concerns as requirements, what do we come up with? Dar seems to be able to do the job (i.e., backup) well enough, although it is a bit clunky. But it does it better than mindi/mondo at a reasonable compression rate,

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. dar itself seems to work - I used it over the weekend to back

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-18 Thread Willie Wonka
Daniel Johnson wrote: Trying it out now with a noburn option with a .dar file size limit. See if this works. Am I correct to assume that it will fill the first one, burn it while filling the next one, remove it after burning/verifying and continue until done/disk is full? I had never

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-18 Thread Willie Wonka
Daniel Johnson wrote: Trying it out now with a noburn option with a .dar file size limit. See if this works. Am I correct to assume that it will fill the first one, burn it while filling the next one, remove it after burning/verifying and continue until done/disk is full? I had never

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-17 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:16, Daniel Johnson wrote: Trying it out now with a noburn option with a .dar file size limit. See if this works. Am I correct to assume that it will fill the first one, burn it while filling the next one, remove it after burning/verifying and continue until

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-16 Thread Daniel Johnson
Trying it out now with a noburn option with a .dar file size limit. See if this works. Am I correct to assume that it will fill the first one, burn it while filling the next one, remove it after burning/verifying and continue until done/disk is full? I had never thought of burning the DVD

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-15 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 15 June 2006 03:57, Daniel Johnson wrote: On 5/1/06, Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ DARomizer:

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 5/1/06, Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ DARomizer: http://www.catherders.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1 Thanks, that sounds great. I

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-12 Thread David Baron
On Monday 01 May 2006 22:31, Bill Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:32:13 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This medium makes it practical. Which tools are best and simplest for this? I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive to

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Thompson
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:32:13 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This medium makes it practical. Which tools are best and simplest for this? I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-05-01 Thread Mark Grieveson
I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ DARomizer: http://www.catherders.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1 Thanks, that sounds great. I notice too that dar is packaged in the

Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-04-30 Thread David Baron
This medium makes it practical. Which tools are best and simplest for this? (I do not like partimage because it insists on identical sizes for restoring and this might not be the case as I have learned in moving my partitions around.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
David Baron wrote: This medium makes it practical. Which tools are best and simplest for this? (I do not like partimage because it insists on identical sizes for restoring and this might not be the case as I have learned in moving my partitions around.) Personally, I prefer

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-04-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: This medium makes it practical. Which tools are best and simplest for this? (I do not like partimage because it insists on identical sizes for restoring and this might not be the case as I have learned in moving my partitions around.) Not so AFAIK: just the partition