Re: incremental/spanning backup to CDR

[bob parker <bob_parker@dodo.com.au>]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:17, martin f krafft wrote:
> do people do such things? i am interested in ways of performing both
> of the following:
>
>   - incremental backups to CDR
>       only the changes get saved each time. i think this requires
>       a local repository to be able to generate the diffs or
>       whatever each time

I do it crudely, I touch a control file at the start of each backup, 
incremental or full.
Incrementals backup only files that have a modtime after the touched file.

>   - backups spanning media
>       this would be the best: you back up a tree to CDR, and since
>       it's larger than 700Mb, you span it across media. ideally,
>       there is an index file that helps you locate the file in the
>       media pool

mondo might be worth a look.
hth
Bob