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>I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can |
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>span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will |
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>require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but |
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>it is not required. |
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I've been in the same boat the last week, and have investigated |
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a number of options, and seem to be settling on app-backup/dar. |
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It compresses; does incrementals; creates split archives of any |
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given size; can keep an online catalog of offline data; and can |
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even encrypt. |
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Sample run: |
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dar -c /backups/root-$(date -I)-full ! what to write |
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-R / ! what to dump (root) |
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-M ! don't span filesystems |
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-s 700M ! Write CD-size files? |
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-y ! compress... |
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-Z '*.gz' -Z '*.tgz' -Z '*.zip' ! ...but don't compress these |
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-P usr -P tmp -P var/cache ! Exclude these directories |
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-D ! (write them as empty dirs) |
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This assumes that /backups is a separate filesystem. Many of |
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those default options can and should be put in /etc/darrc. |
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The above command will write /backups/root-<date>-full.1.dar, .2.dar, |
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as many as it needs. It's then up to you to write those to CD/DVD. |
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Note that mkisofs doesn't yet grok >2G files. At this writing, |
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the cdrtools-devel version claims to... but I'm not interested |
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in verifying that claim :-). So you can't really do -s 4608M |
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or whatever the size is for a DVD. |
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Lots more info, including very thorough documentation and tutorials, |
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on the project home page: |
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http://dar.linux.free.fr/ |
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G'luck, |
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^E |
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Ed Santiago Toolsmith ed@××××××××××.com |
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