on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:28:17PM +0000, Ross Burton (ross.burton@mail.com) 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. You could afford it less if you bought it. Jaz is a piece of shit. Expensive shit. Iomega sucks. > However, I do have a CD-RW in my machine. Helpful, but for larger filesystems, you're going to do a lot of disk swapping. I recommend tape. Highly. > 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? My suggestions: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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