On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:45:31PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:27:13PM EST, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: > > > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > > > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > > > The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to > > > put files on multiple dvds. > > > My k3b works great - but i can not feed it a directory of files and ask it > > > just copy all the files and ask me for a new dvd when you need it. > > > > Look into mondorescue. I've been using it for....hmmmmm.....10 > > years(?!!?). > > Go to > > > > http://www.mondorescue.org > > > > There are debs for sarge and etch. (you need both mondo and mindi) > > > > Now I have to give dar a look. > > I'd be curious of what you think of it and how it compares with mondo. > > It so happens that I ran into mondorestore by accident a couple of weeks > after I had finished implementing my dar-based backups ... so I wasn't > going to start over .. but I found it interesting and I played with it > an entire weekend. > > One thing that put me off a bit was that I thought my laptop was going > to catch fire. I think it went over 80C at one point! It's clearly > stated in the manual, actually. Whatever is does, it sure seems like > mondo knows how to make the most of whatever resources it can grab.
If your laptop overheats from that, this is not the only problem you have. > > Another thing is that I felt that mondo/mindi was a much bigger project > than dar and probably overkill for my little old laptop. > > I also didn't feel too comfortable with the ncurses screens.. they're > probably just fine when you know exactly what you are doing and have a > pretty clear idea what actually goes on behind the scenes, but it's a > little scary when you're just getting started. As in, "what the heck am > I going do if this thing breaks?" You can use the command-line interface. > > But then, that's just me .. After all, I chose dar because I only had to > learn one command and about half a dozen options .. and yes, a push in > the right direction from the nice hands-on tutorial helped since that > got me started in less than an hour. Otherwise I would probably have > gone the way of tar, cpio, or dump. Mondo is useful for system backup. Its prime selling point is that it can restore a fully functional system (partitions included). I'm not sure it is that useful for data backup. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
