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Title: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Jon Blakely on September 22, 2003, 06:48:54 AM

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

Title: Re: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Byte on September 22, 2003, 12:53:23 PM

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

Title: Re: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Alejandro Lengua on September 22, 2003, 09:36:54 PM

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

Title: Re: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Craig on September 23, 2003, 07:05:13 AM

Byte,

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

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Craig

Title: Re: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Sharif George on September 23, 2003, 11:39:40 AM

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

Title: Re: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Luismor on September 23, 2003, 01:45:05 PM

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

Title: Re: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Byte on September 23, 2003, 02:30:33 PM

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

Title: Re: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Jon Blakely on September 23, 2003, 04:40:31 PM

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

Title: Re: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Rob Wellesley on September 26, 2003, 02:55:34 PM

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

Title: Re: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: Sharif George on September 27, 2003, 05:57:55 PM

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

Title: Backup to DVD+RW
Post by: cydonia on July 02, 2004, 12:46:06 PM

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.