Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Joey L wrote: Well thanks for the reply - I think i narrowed it down. 1). Multicd - does the job - the issue there is that we need to do it on iso9660 filesystem and NOT the ext2 filesystem that come by default. Does anyone know how to change that

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-05 Thread Mark Neidorff
Well thanks for the reply - I think i narrowed it down. 1). Multicd - does the job - the issue there is that we need to do it on iso9660 filesystem and NOT the ext2 filesystem that come by default. Does anyone know how to change that ??? 2). Mondoarchive - does the job - the issue is that

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Joey L wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009, Joey L mjh2...@gmail.com wrote about 'Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??': file by file copy

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:44:47PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,04.Jan.09, 11:39:20, Chris Jones wrote: Of course, since acpi on my machine appears to be suffering from double vision.. I guess I shouldn't believe {every | any}thing it's telling me. Maybe the laptop has all the

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Joey L
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Mark Neidorff m...@neidorff.com wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009 08:21 am, Joey L wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Joey L mjh2...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry - I missed a point here.I would like mondo to just copy the files oto the dvd for me.So when I am

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 04 January 2009 09:39 am, Joey L wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Mark Neidorff m...@neidorff.com wrote: I feel like I'm chasing a moving target. Lets nail down the specs that you want. So far what I understand is: file by file copy to some media no compression no

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: snip Mondo is useful for system backup. Its prime selling point is that it can restore a fully functional system (partitions included). I'm not sure it is that useful for data backup. Very useful: use mondoarchive to archive anything onto DVD's then use mondorestore

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 07:50:13AM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:11:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A.

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,04.Jan.09, 11:39:20, Chris Jones wrote: Of course, since acpi on my machine appears to be suffering from double vision.. I guess I shouldn't believe {every | any}thing it's telling me. Maybe the laptop has all the logical infrastructure needed for two fans, one is just not installed

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 12:48:54AM EST, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:45:31PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] One thing that put me off a bit was that I thought my laptop was going to catch fire. I think it went over 80C at one point! It's clearly stated in the manual,

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 04 January 2009 08:21 am, Joey L wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Joey L mjh2...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry - I missed a point here.I would like mondo to just copy the files oto the dvd for me.So when I am on windows or linux - i can just insert the dvd and see the files as they

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Joey L
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Joey L mjh2...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.comwrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: snip Mondo is useful for system backup. Its prime selling point is that it can restore a fully functional system (partitions

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 04 January 2009, Joey L mjh2...@gmail.com wrote about 'Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??': file by file copy to some media no compression no archive readable with other OS if the directories specified are greater then the media max size (i.e. 4gig DVD-R

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,04.Jan.09, 13:34:10, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009, Joey L mjh2...@gmail.com wrote about 'Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??': file by file copy to some media no compression no archive readable with other OS if the directories

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Joey L
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009, Joey L mjh2...@gmail.com wrote about 'Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??': file by file copy to some media no compression no archive readable with other

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Michael Habashy
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Michael Habashy
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:11:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] Have you considered a tape drive?

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. Mondo does that without any trouble. It splits the dir.

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. My k3b works great -

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:27:13PM EST, Mark Neidorff wrote: On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:45:31PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:27:13PM EST, Mark Neidorff wrote: On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to

does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Michael Habashy
I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. My k3b works great - but i can not feed it a directory of files and ask it just copy

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. My k3b works

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:01:08PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Have you considered a tape drive? Yes, and the price-tag left me speechless. I wasn't suggesting a new drive, but an off-lease generation or two old drive. I

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] Have you considered a tape drive? Yes, and the price-tag left me speechless. What about removable disk drives? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:11:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] Have you considered a tape drive? Yes, and the price-tag left me speechless. What about removable disk drives? Tape

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:30:57PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I hope in the next couple of months to get a small tape library from the same place I got my four NetServer LPr boxes. It supposed to have an LTO-2 tape drive and storage for a dozen tapes, all in a 3U enclosure, and all for