>I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can
>span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will
>require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but
>it is not required.
I've been in the same boat the last week, and have investigated
a number of options, and seem to be settling on app-backup/dar.
It compresses; does incrementals; creates split archives of any
given size; can keep an online catalog of offline data; and can
even encrypt.
Sample run:
dar -c /backups/root-$(date -I)-full ! what to write
-R / ! what to dump (root)
-M ! don't span filesystems
-s 700M ! Write CD-size files?
-y ! compress...
-Z '*.gz' -Z '*.tgz' -Z '*.zip' ! ...but don't compress these
-P usr -P tmp -P var/cache ! Exclude these directories
-D ! (write them as empty dirs)
This assumes that /backups is a separate filesystem. Many of
those default options can and should be put in /etc/darrc.
The above command will write /backups/root-<date>-full.1.dar, .2.dar,
as many as it needs. It's then up to you to write those to CD/DVD.
Note that mkisofs doesn't yet grok >2G files. At this writing,
the cdrtools-devel version claims to... but I'm not interested
in verifying that claim :-). So you can't really do -s 4608M
or whatever the size is for a DVD.
Lots more info, including very thorough documentation and tutorials,
on the project home page:
http://dar.linux.free.fr/
G'luck,
^E
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