Re: Backup plain files to DVD
On 6 Jul, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> 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.
Have a look at
http://www.serice.net/shunt
it's a quite flexible tool managing the 'disk change' problem.
--
Helmut Jarausch
Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany
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