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Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: |
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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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>>> I think dar (it's in portage) can do this: I've never used it myself. |
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>> There's also kdar, a GUI for dar that also writes the split archives to |
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>> CD/DVD. |
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> I read about that one but I was not sure it would span across CDs. |
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> That's nice to know. |
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> Thanks |
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> :-) :-) :-) |
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OK. I downloaded Kdar so far. It was smaller and I'm on dial-up. Does |
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these programs preserve file permissions? On some of what I plan to |
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back up it won't matter but if I do a system back up then it will of course. |
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Just curious if anyone knows about this question. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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