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Re: Backup of remote server to DVD



On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Chris Boot wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been hunting around for a nice backup system that will allow me to 
> backup a remote server to DVD. I was looking at Bacula, which according 
> to its manual seems about the perfect solution (if a bit unweildy), but 
> in actual fact doesn't support DVD writing except in CVS. I haven't 
> really looked into Amanda, but DVD writing seems to be a bit of a hack, 
> no? Currently I'm using flexbackup over SSH, but that requires nanual 
> intervention to actually write the archives to DVD, and restoration is 
> difficult.
> 
> Does anyone do this on a regular basis? What can people recommend?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> Chris Boot
> bootc@bootc.net
> http://www.bootc.net/
> 
> 
Hi Chris,

this is just a thought, as I don't know if it suits you at all, but you
could do something like:

ssh user@remotehost dd if=/dev/hda1 | mkisofs -stream-media-size \
2288576 -- | growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0

Many things can be changed here. The odd number is 2kB sectors, the capacity 
of the DVD (actually the DVD I currently have in the drive). If you want 
to pursue this path further, I can improve this script, e.g. not
make a backup of a whole partition, but selected files, bzip2, etc...

Hth,

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