Re: Backup systems
This may not be exactly what you want, but then again it may.
I've been looking at a program called Mondo which does most
of what you're talking about (and can span CD's, if one isn't
big enough, &c.). The homepage is
http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo
...or something like that. I've had limited success getting
it to work on Debian, so help would be appreciated (it is,
however, being actively maintained and developed, so that
helps; and I haven't played with it much recently).
A Debian package of this program would, IMHO, be a wonderful
thing.
Anyway, HTH.
--Daniel
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:28:17PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a cheap backup system for my machine. A recent scare
> regarding my hard drive ("is it a 75GXP?") forced me to think about
> backup policy.
>
> I'd love to own a Jaz drive but at the moment I can't afford one.
> However, I do have a CD-RW in my machine.
>
> This is what I want to do in an ideal work:
>
> I have a script I run every month. It will examine every _user_ file
> (not system) and see what has changed since the last backup. These
> files will be written to an ISO image which I can burn onto a CD, and
> the index of files=>locations updated. Every few months I'll do a
> completely new set of CDs and throw away the old ones. Basically, I
> want an incremental backup procedure which generates ISO images and will
> generate an index for me. If I want to retrieve a single file it can
> tell me what CD its on. If I want to do an entire restore I can just
> give it every CD and it will extract the lot.
>
> Anyone seen anything like this? For the moment I'll make do with taring
> up ~/ and putting that on CDs.
>
> Which brings me to my next question. I'm not up on CD filesystems. Is
> there a filesystem for CDs which supports all of the unix features, i.e.
> long file names, permissions, owner/group etc. Can I burn a ext2 image
> onto a CD if I will only access it in Linux?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Ross
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