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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:32:45 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: |
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>> Is there any backup tool, which simply copies the contents of one |
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>> partition, which is larger than one DVD, to DVDs "as plain as |
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>> possible" -- means copies the contents that way, that I simply can |
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>> mount DVD #n and can easily read and copy the contents? |
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> Search the list archives, this came up very recently. i think the program |
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> recommended was scdbackup. |
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> Note that backing up to DVD/CD file by file will destroy file |
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> permissions. I prefer to use squashfs to create a compressed copy of the |
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> filesystem and copy that to DVD. then I can mount it and copy files back |
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> without losing permissions. |
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sync2cd |
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It's in portage, but the latest version 0.9 is in ~ARCH. |
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And it does store the permission and ownership information along with |
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the files. |
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HTH. |
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-- Remy |
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Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. |
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