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Ed Santiago wrote: |
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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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Sounds like Kdar is what I need. It uses dar as the backend and Kdar is |
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the GUI part. I'll have to check on Mondorescue to though. |
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It would be nice if this was available on the Gentoo CD. I would like |
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to use it to do system backups as well. I usually boot from the CD when |
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I backup the system and use the old cp -av way. I get a lot of "file in |
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use" and some file is locked errors otherwise. |
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Thanks for the info. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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