On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:49:56 -0500
C Hamel
I am looking for a good GPL backup utility with which to b/u the /home directory and assorted others like /etc & /usr/local --perhaps even a full b/u on occasion-- and will copy it to smbfs w/o hassles.
I have tried mondo/mindi and, though it seems to b/u okay, the ISO it cranks out is unreadable once burned to CD.
If you are backing up to cd, the question becomes do you want the backups compressed or not. Uncompressed make more cd's, but you can read and access each file on the cd. For uncompressed, try: cddump at http://www.joat.ca/software/cddump.html If you want compressed, you start running into problems, because tar will not split to cd sized chunks if you compress. There is dar, it will make compressd archives that will fit on a cd, and extraction of single files is quick and easy. http://dar.linux.free.fr/ The advantage of dar, is it will make compressed backups which you can specify the chunks to cd size =~ 650 Meg It will do incremental backups nicely too. Dar has a nice set of examples and tutorials, but it does take a bit of learning. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation