-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-02-18 at 15:30 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 18 February 2007 15:14, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I wish we had some open backup software as reliable as that one was, but using modern media, like dvds, for instance.
I spent a lot of time working with DAR and daromizer which is a front end to DAR.
DAR is quite flexible on its output and with daromizer to setup most of the backups... it worked quite well.
I have dar and kdar on my todo list.
However...... I found that DVD's are not that reliable... when you write them yourself. And that goes for DVD's created in a TV-DVD-recorder or on a PC. I don't use DVD's for backup any more.
And that's what I mean we lack in Linux: a good backup program that takes into account unreliable media, producing reliable backups even if media are faulty. I mean, the backup media has to include sufficient redundancy in the low level format to recover from read errors: this is what the old MsDos programs did for backing up to floppies and such. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF2OabtTMYHG2NR9URAnxDAJ9YfbyLuMLLQZsDiTtvr51sASpiEgCfXa5W nNEqYAnbpSIJb75nklaom/o= =Sk9F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org