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.
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