On Sunday 19 January 2025 03:37:06 am Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Nearly half a life ago, my own endeavor with ISO 9660 and optical media > began with creating a tool which does this splitting automatically: > > http://scdbackup.webframe.org/main_eng.html > http://scdbackup.webframe.org/examples.html > > BD is configured and handled by the DVD configuration and commands of > scdbackup. > Once: > > ./CONFIGURE_DVD > > With each backup, you'd do something like: > > sdvdbackup /topdir=/home/me/topdir -not /home/me/topdir/temp_files > > Back then there was only mkisofs for producing ISO 9660. So sdvdbackup > uses its pathspecs notation for defining the mapping from disk to BD. > Of course i meanwhile use xorriso for the roles of cdrecord, growisofs > and mkisofs. > > I'm still backing up multi-media file collections by help of sdvdbackup. > Backups which fill dozens of media might become lengthy. So there is also > the opportunity to perform incremental backups: > > http://scdbackup.webframe.org/examples.html#incremental Interesting stuff! All three of the machiines in here have DVD writers in them, so this looks like it might prove useful. That's one hell of a big README file! :-)
What all are the rest of you folks using for backup? -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
