[gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup

2006-03-17 Thread JimD
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup

2006-03-17 Thread John Jolet
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup

2006-03-17 Thread JimD
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup

2006-03-17 Thread JimD
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup

2006-03-17 Thread John Jolet
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.