Have DVD burner, will backup!

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Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:08:12 -0400

> This medium makes it practical.
>
> Which tools are best and simplest for this?

Personally, I prefer systemimager. There is a great howto on snapshot-style backups with rsync:

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

All I did was to substitute systemimager for rsync. Now, systemimager uses rsync under the hood, but lots of the things that howto has you do manually are easily configurable in systemimager. So, you can take your periodic snapshots and then burn them to DVD.

Roberto C. Sanchez

Have DVD burner, will backup!

> Which tools are best and simplest for this?
>
> (I do not like partimage because it insists on identical sizes for restoring
> and this might not be the case as I have learned in moving my partitions
> around.)

Not so AFAIK: just the partition to restore from cannot be bigger that the one restored to.

It's main *con* seems to me that you cannot use partimage on a running system.

I use mondo and how to use it to burn DVD's was posted in February of 2006: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/02/msg00203.html

Hugo Vanwoerkom

Have DVD burner, will backup!

> Which tools are best and simplest for this?

I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks.

DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/

DARomizer: http://www.catherders.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1

Bill Thompson