On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:17, martin f krafft wrote: > do people do such things? i am interested in ways of performing both > of the following: > > - incremental backups to CDR > only the changes get saved each time. i think this requires > a local repository to be able to generate the diffs or > whatever each time
I do it crudely, I touch a control file at the start of each backup, incremental or full. Incrementals backup only files that have a modtime after the touched file. > - backups spanning media > this would be the best: you back up a tree to CDR, and since > it's larger than 700Mb, you span it across media. ideally, > there is an index file that helps you locate the file in the > media pool mondo might be worth a look. hth Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]