I just did my first archive. I split the archives into 4482MB files (which is the capacity of a DVD in MB from what I can figure out.) I also set the parity to 5%. As you can see below 7 archive files were created and 8 parity files.
The documentation is a bit thin in the archive section so I have a few questions. 1. What is parity? What are the parity files for and How do you use them with the archives? 2. I chose bZ2 for my backup, to minimize disk usage. The archiving took 680mins to backup. If I chose gzip instead how much difference would there be? How much bigger would the archive be and how much faster would it be. I am planning to do quite a few backups to DVD in future, so I thought now would be the time to ask. ls -alh of the DVD backup directory: drwxr-x--- 2 BackupPC BackupPC 4.0K Apr 14 22:28 . drwxr-xr-x 16 BackupPC BackupPC 4.0K Apr 14 13:18 .. -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 4.2G Apr 14 14:28 localhost.101.tar.bz2.aa -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 4.2G Apr 14 16:16 localhost.101.tar.bz2.ab -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 4.2G Apr 14 17:39 localhost.101.tar.bz2.ac -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 4.2G Apr 14 18:54 localhost.101.tar.bz2.ad -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 4.2G Apr 14 20:04 localhost.101.tar.bz2.ae -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 4.2G Apr 14 21:14 localhost.101.tar.bz2.af -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 2.1G Apr 14 22:13 localhost.101.tar.bz2.ag -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 41K Apr 15 00:41 localhost.101.tar.bz2.par2 -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 14M Apr 15 00:41 localhost.101.tar.bz2.vol000+01.par2 -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 28M Apr 15 00:41 localhost.101.tar.bz2.vol001+02.par2 -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 56M Apr 15 00:41 localhost.101.tar.bz2.vol003+04.par2 -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 112M Apr 15 00:41 localhost.101.tar.bz2.vol007+08.par2 -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 223M Apr 15 00:41 localhost.101.tar.bz2.vol015+16.par2 -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 445M Apr 15 00:41 localhost.101.tar.bz2.vol031+32.par2 -rw-r----- 1 BackupPC BackupPC 515M Apr 15 00:41 localhost.101.tar.bz2.vol063+37.par2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
