Hi,
I am looking for a cheap backup system for my machine. A recent scare
regarding my hard drive ("is it a 75GXP?") forced me to think about
backup policy.
I'd love to own a Jaz drive but at the moment I can't afford one.
However, I do have a CD-RW in my machine.
This is what I want to do in an ideal work:
I have a script I run every month. It will examine every _user_ file
(not system) and see what has changed since the last backup. These
files will be written to an ISO image which I can burn onto a CD, and
the index of files=>locations updated. Every few months I'll do a
completely new set of CDs and throw away the old ones. Basically, I
want an incremental backup procedure which generates ISO images and will
generate an index for me. If I want to retrieve a single file it can
tell me what CD its on. If I want to do an entire restore I can just
give it every CD and it will extract the lot.
Anyone seen anything like this? For the moment I'll make do with taring
up ~/ and putting that on CDs.
Which brings me to my next question. I'm not up on CD filesystems. Is
there a filesystem for CDs which supports all of the unix features, i.e.
long file names, permissions, owner/group etc. Can I burn a ext2 image
onto a CD if I will only access it in Linux?
Thanks for any help,
Ross
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