On 2018-01-11 16:05, Anton Aylward wrote:
As regular readers might recall, I have much of my system arranged as 5G partitions of that I can back up each partition onto a DVD. I use K3B.
I'm looking at doing selected, perhaps "incremental', backups. It is easy enough to select , for example, changed files using FIND. FIND produces a list, but K3B and the tools for making ISO images want files in a directory.
The best I can think of is to have a dummy directory that has symlinks to the files generated by FIND. It seems a bit of a kludge. I'm certainly not happy about the 'tree'.
Rather hardlinks, or the software would have to "follow" the links.
Can the readership think of an alternative? Is there a .iso builder that takes a file list or input stream of file names?
I asked about that the other day. I want to do backups to Bluray DVDs (can be 100 GB each). Same as you, not a tar (not reliable, and no gain), but files directly saved on the ISO. Needs a database that tells which DVD contains which file and version of it. And of course, should handle splitting of source across as many output DVDs as needed. And should be encrypted. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)