Recommend backup program?
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?
Mike
crawford@goingware.com
http://www.goingware.com/
Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
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