Re: Recommend backup program?
hi ya michael
have oyu pick of one of many different ways to do incremental
backs to disks and cdrw .. all free ...
http://www.linux-backup.net/app.gwif.html
c ya
alvin
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a backup program to me that I could use to do
> backups in the following way. I see that there are several programs
> available in Woody for backup, but I'm not sure they have what I want.
> I haven't checked freshmeat yet. I'd be fine compiling from source,
> although I imagine most backup programs available for Linux are scripts.
>
> What I'd like to have is an incremental backup that will produce files
> that are stored on an ISO9660 CD-RW. I'd like to do the backup
> regularly (from cron) to a hard drive filesystem, and when I get around
> to it, then the files will be copied to a CD-RW. It would need to make
> sure that I can always fit the files on a CD (no single archive segment
> bigger than 650 MB).
>
> What I would want to do is create a filesystem and store a .tar.bz2 file
> on it (or some other archive format) rather than tarring straight to the
> CD. That way I could mount it under any OS and get my files back.
>
> It would be nice to manage having a given backup stored on duplicate
> CD-RW, but to be able to eventually re-use a CD-RW (perhaps after an
> occasional full backup) so that I don't have too many pile up.
>
> Even better if it keeps a database of what's on all the CD's, so I can
> find a file off a backup without searching through my pile of CD's.
>
> Help me be a more responsible home office sysadmin. Is there anything
> to do what I want?
>
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