Daniel Johnson wrote: > > Trying it out now with a noburn option with a .dar file size limit. See if > > this works. Am I correct to assume that it will fill the first one, burn it > > while filling the next one, remove it after burning/verifying and continue > > until done/disk is full? > > I had never thought of burning the DVD multisession in order to reduce > temporary storage. I was using the file size limit because mkisofs > refuses to add any file larger than 2 gigs to an ISO so I needed the > option in order to get it to fill a whole dvd at all. > > > Still takes a very long time and verifying will also take a long time. This > > ammount of time, if user intervention be required, will discourage backups. > > Yeah. The real time savings is in incremental backups where it only > backs up the stuff that hasn't been backed up before, and changes. I > haven't taken that ability from dar, and put it in my script yet. > > > So sometime along the line, needed: > > 1. Tell me how many disks I will need and some time estimates. > > When compression is being used it is impossible to know ahead of time > exactly how much space it will take. Time is dependent on not only > disk IO speed, but how long it takes to compress data. Really > anything I come up with would be an estimate, and I'm not sure how to > come up with a good number yet. Maybe collecting statistics will help > set good estimation defaults. > > > 2. Option not to verity. The other script has this. > > Unverified backups should not be trusted, but I guess I can add this > if it makes people happy. > > > 3. Exclude options. I think dar defaults these. > > There are a whole bunch of options hard coded into the script to not > compress filetypes that are already compressed. Is this what you > mean? > > > Anyway, the slice size limit did not work. Should--simply passed on to dar? > > significant amounts of code would have to be rewritten I think. > > In anycase my script needs work. Thanks a lot for the feedback you > gave me a lot of ideas.
First off -- thanks very much for your contribution to the OSS community ;-) Secondly - that's a very nice and decent "dedication" you've made on your site...I commend you for that even more-so. Now, for some questions; I'm fairly new to linux - Has anyone tried this; http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ I saw it when using 'apt-cache search zip' while searching for a zip app/packages here's a partial list returned on my Deb Sarge 3.1r1 Kernel 2.6..8-2; [...] apt-zip - Update a non-networked computer using apt and removable media ark - KDE archiving tool atool - A tool for managing file archives of various types backup-manager - command-line backup tool for GNU Linux backuppc - high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs bzip2 - high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities cbmconvert - Converts different Commodore file formats between each other cdcat - media catalog program [...] (I have no idea why this and other apps were in the list - some apps were returned that don't have "zip" anywhere in their name, but perhaps the internal packaging MetaData and the pkg maintainers are too smart ;-)) anyway, I went ahead and installed it (because I'm a renegade and a rebel) and am reading the docs about it...looks fairly nice, and straightforward. I have no idea how to set it up (correctly, through it's webAdmin interface and Config files, though the basic default config seems safe -- BTW it installed Apache, and more to use ssl, cgi and stuff) and use it yet - but what the hey. I'm reading the docs ...I'd just thought I'd throw it out there to the masses, and wondered if anyone has experience using it. I know there are (3)mailing lists (users, devel's only, updates) for the App and I'm looking through those also. Regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]