On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Mark Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, in light of my USB Drive failure/scare/recovory I've decided to > add another layer to my backup solution. (If it's not coppied twice it > might as well be gone). > > Here's what I'm looking for. A little utility/program/suite whatever > that I can point at what I want to backup and have it create backup > files in the appropriate size to backup to DVDs. (DVD backup has a > higher wife acceptance rate than external USB drive). > > I've looked into amanda, I think it will do all I want. (backup to > external usb drive, AND files big enough for DVD). It seem rather > complicated. Have you looked into bacula? Very flexible system, but may suffer from the complexity problem. You also might want to be aware that a lot of the writable optical media simply fails to work after 3-5 years. This has happened to a couple people I know including me. -- Joshua Draper
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