On 11/01/18 10:12 AM, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
Can the readership think of an alternative? Is there a .iso builder that takes a file list or input stream of file names?
Two quick solutions came to my mind: 1) If You are running Btrfs, You can burn the snapshots (perhaps packed by tar to that ~4 GB blocks).
I don't use BtrFS. Let's not have a discussion about that.
2) Use duplicity (or some GUI using it like Deja-Dup, perhaps kbackup) - it makes incremental backups (tar, zip, gpg) - You can set size of volumes, You can compress the volumes, if require also encrypt. In both cases You'll have one directory of files of given size and You can burn them.
Well, I installed duplicity and deja-dup. I started deja-dup and it stated it was doing an initial scan for the first backup. Then it told me it was out of space. There's not much in the way of command line options and I never got the point where the GUI offered options. I tried it on a less populated FS, one of my ones under /var that has only 15% occupancy. After a short while the machine froze. I can't think of anything else that was going on to account for that, I was just watching the scan list; it stopped as the machine froze. Neither ctl-c nor any three fingered salute worked, I had to power cycle. I also looked at the man page for duplicity as was very put off. Much to much to worry about. For the record: My full backups of the file systems on the 5G partitions using k3B has the advantage that they are not TAR'd. I can mount the DVD and it is just another file system. I can read or copy any file without having to any special program. The idea of doing incremental to CDs, or incremental of a number of the 5G's to a DVD with the same kind of access is too attractive. Running FIND to get a list by whatever criteria, date of change is a good enough one, but FIND allows for other criteria as well, remember, then generating symlinks in a dummy directory and pointing K3B at that directory is ..... well it works, but it takes a bit of hacking to get sensible pathnames under the dummy directory, and k3b isn't the most reliable tool for following symlinks. Sometimes that has an unexpected consequence. For example: in my ~/Document there is a symlink to ~/Downloads I would rather that was not followed. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org