On 6 Jul, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I read with interest posts by Tony Caola: > http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2003/09/msg00013.html and Volker > Kuhlmann http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2003/09/msg00014.html under > the subject "Making UDF DVD+RW backups". Eagerly I examined Volker's > interesting and useful shell scripts writecd, cp-sort and cp-ext2 at > http://volker.dnsalias.net/soft/. > > However, they still do not seem to quite cover my aim, which is > possibly not unique. > > AIM: a reliable program that, given a directory name, will back up all > the files in the directory to DVDs, preferably being able to back > them up in a sorted order, as just plain files, possibly in an > ext2 file system, prompting me to change the DVDs as each is > filled up. > > QUESTION: Before I start writing this (in Perl), is there anyone who > has done this? > > I need to back up 160GB data, and would prefer to have a simple > filesystem that I can browse easily (particularly a web site of > photos). I wrote a messy couple of scripts a few years ago that did > this sort of thing with CD-R; I might clean them up (with a fire hose! > :-) and press them into service again. I am looking to use free (as > in freedom) software rather than proprietary. > > I am new to DVD writing and will probably use growisofs.
Have a look at http://www.serice.net/shunt it's a quite flexible tool managing the 'disk change' problem. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
