Topic: Backup to DVD+RW

[Jon Blakely]

I am looking for a cheap (read free) backup solution to DVD +RW. I would like to implement daily incremental backups of /home and a full weekly backup.
Any one using DVD for backup.

Jon

[Byte]

We use DVD-R which we found have no problems, I would say that we had problems runnying DVD+R as it was too immature for us to use confidently, basically with DVD+R we couldnt read the dvd burns in anyother "normal" DVD player.

Hope this helps

Byte

[Alejandro Lengua]

This is what I want to do, go from 10M to 100M.
BTW did you got any notable performance improvement? I suppose you did..

[Craig]

Byte,

Can you please provide information on what you are doing to backup to DVD-R's.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Craig

[Sharif George]

Hello All

I would love to know how that backup is working as I am struggling at this end to get a decent backup to CDR or DVD-/+r working.

I am currently fiddling with backup to WS but it does not seem to run "scheduled" and doesn't actually seem to run at all!!

My data size is over 3GB

Thanks

Sharif

[Luismor]

Please, can you tell us how are you doing the DVD backups?
Thanks
Luis

[Byte]

Well I just created a bash script to backup all my /home dir's that mounts another machine (REDHAT) and creates the date/dir/tar everything our data is 28G and we burn off onto DVD-R once a week with no problems.

I use cron to automatically  run at nite and once done emails me the results.

Kind Regards Byte

[Jon Blakely]

I have managed to get writing to a DVD+RW working using dvd+rw-tools. It creates multi-session disks that are readable in a "normal" DVD-rom.
 I am currently modifying cdbackup.pl to work with DVD+RW. When I get this working properly I will post the results and a how-to and link to the scripts.

Jon

[Rob Wellesley]

Jon Blakely wrote:

>  I am currently modifying cdbackup.pl to work with DVD+RW.
> When I get this working properly I will post the results and
> a how-to and link to the scripts.

Sign me up Jon - i'll give it a whirl and report back any bugs to you directly

rob

[Sharif George]

I Discovered what went wrong !!

My workstation (WIn2k) is called "desktop" on x.x.x.55 but the server sees the workstation as PC-00055.  When the backup starts it identifies Dekstop with ip address x.x.x.66!!

It's cheating I know but all I did was give my machine the static ip of 66 and it worked!!  now I just write the files to the DVD.

I too would like to see the script as I really need to automate this soon (it's boring now)

Sharif

[cydonia]

Any how-to's on how to do this?

I really want to be able to do automatic backups of the server, from the server, on a drive within the server.  Not to a workstation.