I spent too much time looking at half-assed backup software, and now I'm
soliciting recommendations instead. Please recommend something if it has
all of these features:

* it should be open source and free

* it should use CD-Rs via `cdrecord` 

* it should not take too much disk space during backups (I can afford 650
MB, but not doubling my disk usage <- there are some 'solutions' that
this!)

* it should be possible and easy to specify that I want, for example, to
  back up / monthly, /home weekly, and /home/me/work daily

* it should use a combination of full and incremental backups

* recovery of whole file systems and individual files should be a
no-brainer, including recovering on a different machine


Preferably, it should also be hackable, old, tested and stable, and use
tried and true utils like tar, gzip and cdrecord under the hood.


I'm not looking for 'have you looked at ...' answers. Google already gave me
a lot of suggestions. I'm looking for *recommendations* .

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:18:49 -0800, Neo-LISPer wrote:

[snips]
> 
> I'm not looking for 'have you looked at ...' answers. Google already gave me
> a lot of suggestions. I'm looking for *recommendations* .
>
Write your own?

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Neo-LISPer <neo_lisper@yahoo.com>:
>  I spent too much time looking at half-assed backup software, and now I'm
>  soliciting recommendations instead. Please recommend something if it has
> [snip]
>  I'm not looking for 'have you looked at ...' answers. Google already gave me
>  a lot of suggestions. I'm looking for *recommendations* .

Build your own.  That's what I did.  It's written in bash shell script
and uses find and afio to create separate compressed archives for
multiple filesystems.  Those are written to an iso with mkisofs, and
the iso is burned to CD-R(W) with cdrecord.

Backups are too important to be left to someone else.  I need to know
my backups work.


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s. keeling wrote:

> Neo-LISPer <neo_lisper@yahoo.com>:
>>  I spent too much time looking at half-assed backup software, and now I'm
>>  soliciting recommendations instead. Please recommend something if it has
>> [snip]
>>  I'm not looking for 'have you looked at ...' answers. Google already
>>  gave me a lot of suggestions. I'm looking for *recommendations* .
> 
> Build your own.  That's what I did.  It's written in bash shell script
> and uses find and afio to create separate compressed archives for
> multiple filesystems.  Those are written to an iso with mkisofs, and
> the iso is burned to CD-R(W) with cdrecord.
> 
> Backups are too important to be left to someone else.  I need to know
> my backups work.
> 
> 

That's what I'm leaning towards. Over in gentoo, people recommended 'dar'
though.

Neo-LISPer wrote:

> I spent too much time looking at

.... http://www.partimage.org/
..
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I found the best solution on the net for cdr backups, they are
affordbly priced also.

Check them out Vision Backup is there product !
http://www.vwsolutions.com