backup stratagems

[Jason Shein]

Kevin Cozens wrote:
> 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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I know mondo does without problems, though by the chatter on the devel 
list they are still having some minor issues with DVDRW.

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