backup stratagems

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:07:21PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> 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.

cdbackup
tob

Both are available on Debian at least.

Perhaps combined they would make a great tool.

> 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.

Well write support to DVD-RAM can be done easily (and works well).  Not
sure how it is doing for things like DVD+RW or DVD-RW.

Lennart Sorensen
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