On 17/08/12 04:40 AM, Emil Payne wrote:
I have a 1 TB external USB drive with 362 GB used. I'd like to do a
full backup to DVDs and then an incremental (or something) backup
every month or two, also to DVDs or CDs. I'd like the backups to be
compressed in order to save space (i.e. - the number of DVDs/CDs
used). What is a good program to do this with? Or, what is a good
step of different programs to do this with? I'm a home user with
decent knowledge of Debian/Linux, but not a shell programmer.
Depending on your data, compression may or may not be useful. Video and
audio data is usually already optimally compressed.
4.5G on a DVD is also not terribly useful if you want to back up large
amounts of data. BluRay writers are cheap enough these days, and BD-RE
discs are not too expensive. BD-R discs are even cheaper for doing an
archival backup.
You don't say what you are backing up. If it is the data on the external
drive, you may want to consider getting a second drive and backing up to
that. It's a lot easier than manually swapping discs. In this case, you
could try Bacula. It's not too difficult to set up and quite flexible.
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