On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. All I could get out of darmonizer was "waiting for the <first volume>" and then it just stops. dar itself seems to work - I used it over the weekend to back up my whole system, in a couple of hours. At default compression, it backed up a 30 gig drive (not exactly full, of course) to 3 DVD-RWs). But in order to restore, I have to load all three volumes someplace to restore the files. Dar seems to be able to do the job (i.e., backup) well enough, although it is a bit clunky. But it does it better than mindi/mondo at a reasonable compression rate, which took all night to do the same task -- and fell over. Obviously, if I start a backup at 9PM and go to bed, I don't want the system beeping me to change media at 3:00 AM :(. Incrementals are still going to take some time provided one has to load the backup media onto the system before proceeding, of course, which is something I'll need to do... I don't have a whole lot of space available. K3B will also work - on /home, for instance, provided /home fits onto precisely one DVD-RW. It too gets really bogged down at times. > I mean stay off certain directories, such as /mnt, /tmp, etc. There are a lot > of hidden directorys which I may want to exclude such as those that cache I pruned the obvious stuff (/proc /sys /media /dev) and excluded the dar images themselves - if one doesn't do that, it'll inform you of a possible endless loop. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
