DVD Based backup without scripts ?

[Les Mikesell]

linuxguy wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> Is there a (GPL?) Linux utility that I can use to do this easily ?
>> I had the same problem myself and when I couldn't find anything that
>> fulfilled my needs I ended up writing BackupFiller
>> (http://www.krakoa.dk/linux-software.html#BACKUPFILLER).
>>
>> It is a small script (and you may not be interested in scripts - judging
>> by your Subject-line) that given a directory generates path-list files
>> that can then be passed on to mkisofs to to make CDs or DVDs.
>>
>> It is quite basic but it gets the job done for me at least. You can take
>> a look at it and if you have any problems drop me a mail, and I will try
>> to help.
> 
> 
> That is the best solution that I have seen thus far.  Its kind of
> surprising there isn't an app for this given that we should all be
> backing things up pretty frequently. 

DVD's are good for fairly long term archiving, but for backups it is 
much easier to use some scheme involving rsync to another hard drive, 
perhaps external or remote. If you have multiple machines, backuppc 
(http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) is particularly good.

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   Les Mikesell
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