Comments on: How to backup and restore a lot of data on to dvds http://notsoevil.net/2009/06/how-to-backup-and-restore-a-lot-of-data-on-to-dvds/ I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:34:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: The Wife http://notsoevil.net/2009/06/how-to-backup-and-restore-a-lot-of-data-on-to-dvds/comment-page-1/#comment-15 The Wife Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:21:24 +0000 http://john.notsoevil.net/?p=27#comment-15 OMGs This totally doesn't work in Windows. WTF mate? OMGs This totally doesn’t work in Windows. WTF mate?

]]> By: jldugger http://notsoevil.net/2009/06/how-to-backup-and-restore-a-lot-of-data-on-to-dvds/comment-page-1/#comment-14 jldugger Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:53:33 +0000 http://john.notsoevil.net/?p=27#comment-14 The comment system stripped out my tt tags for the package description =( Lets see if code tags work as advertised. <code>Description: File subsets extractor based on genetic algorithms Genetic Algorithm File Fitter (gaffitter) is a command-line software written in C++ that extracts –via genetic algorithm– subsets of an input list of files/directories that best fit the given volume size (target), such as CD, DVD and others</code> The comment system stripped out my tt tags for the package description =(

Lets see if code tags work as advertised.
Description: File subsets extractor based on genetic algorithms
Genetic Algorithm File Fitter (gaffitter) is a command-line software
written in C++ that extracts –via genetic algorithm– subsets of an
input list of files/directories that best fit the given volume size
(target), such as CD, DVD and others

]]> By: John http://notsoevil.net/2009/06/how-to-backup-and-restore-a-lot-of-data-on-to-dvds/comment-page-1/#comment-13 John Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:16:31 +0000 http://john.notsoevil.net/?p=27#comment-13 gafitter looks like a perfect tool for some of my backups and answers the need for a copy of the file system on dvds(especially with --split), so thanks for that tip. I decided not to go with a more complicated backup program, instead opting for tar since I don't expect to burn dvd backups very often. Also part of my goal was to make it as easy as possible to restore the backups (cat and tar being basic tools installed in all linux distributions) They're <code> tags btw, what is wrong with them? gafitter looks like a perfect tool for some of my backups and answers the need for a copy of the file system on dvds(especially with –split), so thanks for that tip. I decided not to go with a more complicated backup program, instead opting for tar since I don’t expect to burn dvd backups very often. Also part of my goal was to make it as easy as possible to restore the backups (cat and tar being basic tools installed in all linux distributions)

They’re <code> tags btw, what is wrong with them?

]]> By: jldugger http://notsoevil.net/2009/06/how-to-backup-and-restore-a-lot-of-data-on-to-dvds/comment-page-1/#comment-12 jldugger Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:14:56 +0000 http://john.notsoevil.net/?p=27#comment-12 Also, <tt> ftl. Also, <tt> ftl.

]]> By: jldugger http://notsoevil.net/2009/06/how-to-backup-and-restore-a-lot-of-data-on-to-dvds/comment-page-1/#comment-11 jldugger Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:13:35 +0000 http://john.notsoevil.net/?p=27#comment-11 So there's about a billion ways to do backups; I tried cataloging just the ones available in Ubuntu in <a href="http://jldugger.livejournal.com/27216.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a>. One thing you might look at is a package called <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gaffitter" rel="nofollow">gaffitter</a>: Description: File subsets extractor based on genetic algorithms Genetic Algorithm File Fitter (gaffitter) is a command-line software written in C++ that extracts --via genetic algorithm-- subsets of an input list of files/directories that best fit the given volume size (target), such as CD, DVD and others It should fit nicely into your already existing setup. You should also be able to pipe all of these steps together, so that it needs to hit disk less often. So there’s about a billion ways to do backups; I tried cataloging just the ones available in Ubuntu in this post.

One thing you might look at is a package called gaffitter:
Description: File subsets extractor based on genetic algorithms
Genetic Algorithm File Fitter (gaffitter) is a command-line software
written in C++ that extracts –via genetic algorithm– subsets of an
input list of files/directories that best fit the given volume size
(target), such as CD, DVD and others

It should fit nicely into your already existing setup. You should also be able to pipe all of these steps together, so that it needs to hit disk less often.

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