Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-05 Thread Bob McGowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:12:17AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 <--snipped stuff-->>> *REALLY BAD*: your business did regular backups to the same media!! _Always_ have multiple backup media and rotate bet

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-03 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 13:56 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > After spending some time searching, I have to agree with you. It seems > that it is legal to install deCSS, it is not illegal to distribute it, > which means that whichever website you get it from is breaking the law, > but you are not by downl

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 22:24 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> Michael M. wrote: >>> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >>> >> According to Automatix (the easy installer that is used by many ubuntu >> users ( http://www.getau

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread John Hasler
Michael M. writes: > Sorry I can't find on that website where it says installing DeCSS is > illegal. Certain specific parties were enjoined from distributing DeCSS under trade secret law[1]. As far as I know there has been no other ruling on the subject. [1] Once DeCSS became public knowledge

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 22:24 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Michael M. wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > > According to Automatix (the easy installer that is used by many ubuntu > users ( http://www.getautomatix.com ) it is illegal to install deCSS in > the United States.

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > >> The libraries here have all sorts of media, including both games for the >> computer and audio CD's. But then again the copyright rules are >> different here than in the US :

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > The libraries here have all sorts of media, including both games for the > computer and audio CD's. But then again the copyright rules are > different here than in the US :) That's why I can legally install > libdvdcss2 and people in the US can

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:49 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: >> >>> I think you hit it on the head. Because it's available. One of the >>> quirks of living in this liberal country is that it is _not_ illegal to >>> do

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:49 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > > I think you hit it on the head. Because it's available. One of the > > quirks of living in this liberal country is that it is _not_ illegal to > > download films and music from the internet. Some loophole in the > >

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread Caoilte O'Connor
Thanks for the suggestions everybody. I have quite specific backup requirements (a very large and mostly static resource) so I was just looking to see if anyone had already found the optimum solution for dealing with it. As there doesn't seem to be a bespoke solution and I'll be probably be doing

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:12:17AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote: > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: > >[snip] > >>yes! that went perfect for two years. last week w

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Joe Hart wrote: > I think you hit it on the head. Because it's available. One of the > quirks of living in this liberal country is that it is _not_ illegal to > download films and music from the internet. Some loophole in the > copyright law. I always thought it was a strange dichotomy that I

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread Bob McGowan
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] yes! that went perfect for two years. last week we lost many electronic data of our (small) business because essent (energy-producer a

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > yes! that went perfect for two years. last week we lost many electronic > data of our (small) business because essent (energy-producer and > distributor

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread George Hein
Two years ago I ripped all my CD's to 4GB .ogg for my laptop. I backed all this to a single DVD. All classical music and operas. Recently, did it again to highest fidelity using ogg onto a 500GB-HD. Then I backed this up on 5 double layer DVD's. I did not need tar as I had no problems with

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread steef
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/28/07 12:59, Joe Hart wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Caoilte O'Connor wrote: Hi, I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) t

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/28/07 12:59, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Bob McGowan wrote: Caoilte O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll > have to tar it a

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 08:14 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> A better question to ask myself is why do I need all this music and >> video in the first place? > > Because. Its available. Its cheap. > > Because it cheaply available and i

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 08:14 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > A better question to ask myself is why do I need all this music and > video in the first place? Because. Its available. Its cheap. Because it cheaply available and its there. I know, I have 4.4TB on one machine, 1.2TB on another machine. I st

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/07 12:59, Joe Hart wrote: >> Bob McGowan wrote: >>> Caoilte O'Connor wrote: Hi, I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too lo

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Caoilte O'Connor wrote: > I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll > have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and a > few have strange accents. > > What would people suggest is the best way to go about doing this? I > guess I need to find the best w

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/07 18:30, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 18:18 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/28/07 12:59, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Bob McGowan wrote: Caoilte O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or s

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 18:18 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/07 12:59, Joe Hart wrote: > > Bob McGowan wrote: > >> Caoilte O'Connor wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll > >>> have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/07 12:59, Joe Hart wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: >> Caoilte O'Connor wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll >>> have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and a >>> few have stra

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan wrote: > Caoilte O'Connor wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll >> have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and a >> few have strange accents. >> >> What would people sugge

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Bob McGowan
Caoilte O'Connor wrote: Hi, I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and a few have strange accents. What would people suggest is the best way to go about doing this? I guess I need to find the best way of c

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/07 07:01, Caoilte O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll > have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and a > few have strange accents. > > What would people suggest is t

What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-02-28 Thread Caoilte O'Connor
Hi, I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and a few have strange accents. What would people suggest is the best way to go about doing this? I guess I need to find the best way of creating a series of corre

Re: Backup to dvd

2004-10-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, David Berg wrote: > > >either since I plan on doing it shortly (only using half of harddrive > > >and fdisk for some reason won't let me put a partition on the rest) > > > > Did you by any chance create 4 primary partitions of which none is > > extended? If so then you shoul

Re: Backup to dvd

2004-10-25 Thread David Berg
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:26:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > David Berg wrote: > >Need some help hammering out a tar/mkisofs command to backup my disks to > >dvd. I'm looking to burn two root level directories (/home,/var and > >/usr, /) to they're own dvd. Problem is I don't have room to bui

Re: Backup to dvd

2004-10-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
David Berg wrote: Need some help hammering out a tar/mkisofs command to backup my disks to dvd. I'm looking to burn two root level directories (/home,/var and /usr, /) to they're own dvd. Problem is I don't have room to build the tarball or iso on the hard disk before I burn it. Using a command

Backup to dvd

2004-10-24 Thread David Berg
Need some help hammering out a tar/mkisofs command to backup my disks to dvd. I'm looking to burn two root level directories (/home,/var and /usr, /) to they're own dvd. Problem is I don't have room to build the tarball or iso on the hard disk before I burn it. Using a command such as mkisofs

Re: Backup to DVD

2004-07-20 Thread Robert William Hutton
Marcus wrote: Can anyone recommend a backup program which can write to DVD? tar cvzf .tar.gz burn this to DVD, optionally using "split" if the file is too large for a single DVD. I'd like to backup my entire deb installation (4-5 GB) and be able to snap it back into place from DVD. I last used Mon

Backup to DVD

2004-07-20 Thread Marcus
Can anyone recommend a backup program which can write to DVD? I'd like to backup my entire deb installation (4-5 GB) and be able to snap it back into place from DVD. I last used Mondobackup, but it only does CDs AFAIK, and that can take ages on CDRWs at 10-speed. Norton Ghost 2003 fails backing

Re: backup to dvd of apple files

2003-10-04 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:35:17PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > I have always pulled the files back off of my linux server to a Mac, > created an ISO of the files and then burned from wherever. You may find > that it is easiest if you burned or at least mastered all the files from > a Mac.

RE: backup to dvd of apple files

2003-09-29 Thread Bajusz, Richard G.
I don't know about netatalk and resources forks, but when I make CDs on Linux to read on my Mac I use a command like: mkisofs -apple -J -R -l -hide-rr-moved ... Long file are preserved. Rich > > Hello, > > I have recently inherited a (voluntary) sysadminjob. > > We have a fileserve

Re: backup to dvd of apple files

2003-09-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Rudy Gevaert wrote: Hello, I have recently inherited a (voluntary) sysadminjob. We have a fileserver where Macs and Windows clients can connect to. On the fileserver I use netatalk and samba. I have about 10 gig of data on it and I want to dump that data to a DVD. I have found someone who has

Re: backup to dvd of apple files

2003-09-27 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:55:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Would a simple tar archive work? mac,win, and un*x can read and write tar > and it should preserve the file names. I also tried to do a tar of it but it gave errors about long names (or about strange characters) -- Rudy Gevaer

Re: backup to dvd of apple files

2003-09-27 Thread kmark
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently inherited a (voluntary) sysadminjob. > > We have a fileserver where Macs and Windows clients can connect to. > > On the fileserver I use netatalk and samba. > > I have about 10 gig of data on it and I want to dump that data to

backup to dvd of apple files

2003-09-27 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I have recently inherited a (voluntary) sysadminjob. We have a fileserver where Macs and Windows clients can connect to. On the fileserver I use netatalk and samba. I have about 10 gig of data on it and I want to dump that data to a DVD. I have found someone who has a DVD burner so I on