----- Original Message ----- > From: "Intense Red" <intns...@golgotha.net> > > Okay, here's a different backup software question. > > The scenario: Call me weird, but I buy plastic CDs and refuse to > buy > "electronic" music. I tediously rip my CDs to Ogg files and store > them on my > file server. (The CDs go into the basement.) Great, I'm happy. I have > 12-15 GB > of Ogg files. Each Ogg file is stored in a tediously-named > subdirectory tree > arranged by "Genre -> Artist -> Album". I want to back up this music > subdirectory tree. >
I'm with you on buying music on CD. But keep in mind that you don't have a "true" backup of those music CDs unless you're encoding them in a lossless format such as flac. The filesize will be larger, but you can configure Rhythmbox to automatically transcode when you move a file to your portable player (assuming you use one). Now as for backing up your ogg files (or flac files) to data DVD, I think you're doing it wrong. It's an interesting technical problem, but you could solve it really easily by just backing up to a USB drive. I know that's sort of throwing money at the problem, but as your music collection grows your backup-to-DVD scheme is just going to get more and more annoying. You could get a 32 GB USB flash drive for $20, or a 500 GB USB hard drive for $50 from newegg (US dollars). -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1776766831.48186016.1373646583159.javamail.r...@ptd.net
