At 7:55 PM -0300 6/3/07, Sebastian Gurovich wrote:
What is the best way to backup a file system like that with DVDs?
Later will ask the list.
There are many backup solutions. Some take lots of
setup. Myself, I've used tar and dump. Be aware that
compression makes the backup "brittle", so that a single
error can ruin it. Tar and dump have options to set the tape
length; I use "4590200". I do backups with two
windows. In the first:
tar -clf /tmp/dvd -ML 4590200 /boot /etc
/root /home /var/www
or:
dump -0u -L my15charlabel -b 32 -B 4590200 -f
/tmp/dvd /mnt/filesystem
in the second, when the first pauses:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z
/dev/dvd=/tmp/dvd
There may be slicker ways to do it. Note that for dump I
like to boot from CD and work on an unmounted filesystem. For
tar I do a selective backup.
Others like to use a USB disk drive, and just copy the files
over, often with rsync if they do it repeatedly.
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