Re: *Another* Backup software question...
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> From: "Intense Red" <intnsred@golgotha.net>
>
> Okay, here's a different backup software question.
>
> The scenario: Call me weird, but I buy plastic CDs and refuse to
> buy
> "electronic" music. I tediously rip my CDs to Ogg files and store
> them on my
> file server. (The CDs go into the basement.) Great, I'm happy. I have
> 12-15 GB
> of Ogg files. Each Ogg file is stored in a tediously-named
> subdirectory tree
> arranged by "Genre -> Artist -> Album". I want to back up this music
> subdirectory tree.
>
I'm with you on buying music on CD. But keep in mind that you don't have a "true" backup of those music CDs unless you're encoding them in a lossless format such as flac. The filesize will be larger, but you can configure Rhythmbox to automatically transcode when you move a file to your portable player (assuming you use one).
Now as for backing up your ogg files (or flac files) to data DVD, I think you're doing it wrong. It's an interesting technical problem, but you could solve it really easily by just backing up to a USB drive. I know that's sort of throwing money at the problem, but as your music collection grows your backup-to-DVD scheme is just going to get more and more annoying.
You could get a 32 GB USB flash drive for $20, or a 500 GB USB hard drive for $50 from newegg (US dollars).
-Rob
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