Dear Folks,
I read with interest posts by Tony Caola:
http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2003/09/msg00013.html and Volker
Kuhlmann http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2003/09/msg00014.html under
the subject "Making UDF DVD+RW backups". Eagerly I examined Volker's
interesting and useful shell scripts writecd, cp-sort and cp-ext2 at
http://volker.dnsalias.net/soft/.
However, they still do not seem to quite cover my aim, which is
possibly not unique.
AIM: a reliable program that, given a directory name, will back up all
the files in the directory to DVDs, preferably being able to back
them up in a sorted order, as just plain files, possibly in an
ext2 file system, prompting me to change the DVDs as each is
filled up.
QUESTION: Before I start writing this (in Perl), is there anyone who
has done this?
I need to back up 160GB data, and would prefer to have a simple
filesystem that I can browse easily (particularly a web site of
photos). I wrote a messy couple of scripts a few years ago that did
this sort of thing with CD-R; I might clean them up (with a fire hose!
:-) and press them into service again. I am looking to use free (as
in freedom) software rather than proprietary.
I am new to DVD writing and will probably use growisofs.
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