Re: DVD-R as backup medium: growisofs + udftools
"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Note that you first need to think about snapshots anyway and snapshots
> > need disk space.
>
> We discussed the snapshot topic a few years ago.
> If you remember, the result was that a snapshot
> can prevent some inconsistency mishaps but not
> all of them. Perfect inconsistency protection is
> only achieved by backing up from a filesystem where
> no filepointers are open for writing.
> E.g. by unmounting the filesystem or by shutting
> down the operating system and running the backup
> in single user mode.
Snapshots prevent all inconsistency at filesystem level.
> But this thread is about the possibility to write
> several large archive streams onto the same DVD-R without
> the need for buffering them and with the opportunity
> to eject and re-insert the media between two streams.
This is something you introduced again...
Jörg
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