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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 |
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Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to |
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> > use. 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 |
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> > but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I |
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> > can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. |
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> > |
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> > Is there anything out there that would do this? |
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> I've never used it myself, but I read an article somewhere about it |
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> and seems that mondorescue can do that: |
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> http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml |
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> However, I'm not sure about its portage status: it seems that all the |
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> versions are masked (for x86 at least). The relevant entry in |
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> package.mask says |
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> "has security issues and will be removed from portage |
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> due to upstream behaviour, see bug #106497" |
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> but that comment is rather old (more than one year) and it's still in |
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> portage. Furthermore, the mondorescue home page shows many |
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> gentoo-related downloads. |
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> Maybe there's someone else using it that hopefully can give you more |
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> detailed information. |
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I've heard good things about the package, installed it yesterday, and |
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will soon give it a test. In my case, I'm interested in creating a |
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bootable CD so that I can have a functioning system able to restore my |
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system from an external hard drive :-> |
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