On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:36:15AM +1100, Graham Smith wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > With all those incremental-backup solutions being mentioned - is > > anyone using them to backup to a CD-ROM? > > > > Two programs come to mind. > > Mondo Rescue - This makes a set of bootable CD/DVDs which can rebuild a new > hard disk from scratch including the partitioning, automatically. > http://mondo.30below.com/index.html > > Kdar - You can safely backup (with compression if you like), view and restore > files using KDar, along with a few easy UNIX commands for mounting and > burning CD-R's, Zip and Jazz drives, DVD-R's, floppies, or any other > disk-based storage media.
Jazz? I bought a Jazz and 5 discs at vast expense ($2000 back then) only to find that they are utterly unreliable. On the two occasions I actually needed the backup the relevant discs failed to read. As for flopppies... I just assume that if it's more than 4 weeks old it will have disk errors. I've never used Zip. Mostly CDs seem to be reliable, but not always. In any case, CDs really aren't big enough. So far I haven't tried DVD. I've never used tape, but an important digital video tape i had was too corrupted to play on my camcorder, so that worries me. At the moment I'm using CD for backup - non-incrementally but critical data only. It begs the question: what IS reliable? David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
