Dear Folks, On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:42:24PM +0000, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > While k3b looks usable for some stuff, it doesn't seem to handle backing > > up more than will fit on a DVD without manually laying things out. > > I didn't see anything that comes with fedora that works like dump/restore > > (that is an option for me too, but my DVD blanks hold twice what my > > tapes do). > > > > I found a package called Mondo that seems like it might do what I want, > > but I haven't taken a detailed look at it yet. Since if the package > > were the best DVD dump package out there, I would have expected it to > > already be in Fedora, so I am wondering if it has some major problems before > > I put too much effort into trying it out. > > > > I use mondoarchive a lot and like it quite a bit. I don't have a DVD > burner so I can't directly comment on support for dvds. I googled > "mondoarchive dvd" and found that instead of using cdrecord, it will work > when using dd. Mondoarchive 2.0x works fine with DVDs. I can backup both locally and remotely, perform incremental backups, and verify while backing up. Good software, I am so glad I found it. I have not done a bare metal restore yet, but I can locate and extract individual files from the archives simply using just the afio software package. -- Nick Urbanik RHCE nicku(at)vtc.edu.hk Proud member of the Dept. of Information & Communications Technology, Home of Visual Paradigm: Jolt Productivity Award winner, programmed by our own graduates! Tel: (852) 2436 8576 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24
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