backup stratagems

[Kevin Cozens]

At 10:03 PM 11/04/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > Alright, backups are unquestionably essential.
>
>There was a very good newTLUG meeting about this 1.5yr ago:
>http://tman.dyndns.org/~ttanski/backups/
>
>Have things really changed?  When I last looked around, after that
>meeting, this is the list I made:
>
>gratis:
>
>storix: "FREE personal-edition"
>arkeia: "try it for FREE"
>tar/cfdisk
>rsync: option to create a live backup on the system.
>partimage
>mondo
>Webmin ? has filesystem backup, GNU tar... careful if services are up ;-)
>Amanda
>cpio
>dd
>taper

Which (if any) of the above support backup to DVD drives? I used to do 
backups to 4mm DAT tape. However, after I had three tape drives stop 
working on me I no longer consider tape (or at least tape drives) to be a 
reliable way to backup hard drives. Not to say that many of you that use 
tape drives have had no problems.

Also, does anyone know how things are going re: the ability to do packet 
writing to CD/DVD's? It works fine under Windows allowing a CD or DVD to be 
used as a rather large floppy. Under RedHat 9 I can mount a drive as   '-t 
UDF' and can read the disks I created from Windows. Last I checked, write 
support was still considered experimental under Linux.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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