hi ya michael have oyu pick of one of many different ways to do incremental backs to disks and cdrw .. all free ...
http://www.linux-backup.net/app.gwif.html c ya alvin On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Can anyone recommend a backup program to me that I could use to do > backups in the following way. I see that there are several programs > available in Woody for backup, but I'm not sure they have what I want. > I haven't checked freshmeat yet. I'd be fine compiling from source, > although I imagine most backup programs available for Linux are scripts. > > What I'd like to have is an incremental backup that will produce files > that are stored on an ISO9660 CD-RW. I'd like to do the backup > regularly (from cron) to a hard drive filesystem, and when I get around > to it, then the files will be copied to a CD-RW. It would need to make > sure that I can always fit the files on a CD (no single archive segment > bigger than 650 MB). > > What I would want to do is create a filesystem and store a .tar.bz2 file > on it (or some other archive format) rather than tarring straight to the > CD. That way I could mount it under any OS and get my files back. > > It would be nice to manage having a given backup stored on duplicate > CD-RW, but to be able to eventually re-use a CD-RW (perhaps after an > occasional full backup) so that I don't have too many pile up. > > Even better if it keeps a database of what's on all the CD's, so I can > find a file off a backup without searching through my pile of CD's. > > Help me be a more responsible home office sysadmin. Is there anything > to do what I want? > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
