[Duplicity-talk] Backup to CD (Andre Ruiz)

[Rick Price]

Why don't you use rewritable CD's and burn the incrementals every day?

Rick

> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:30:39 -0200
> From: Andre Ruiz <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Duplicity-talk] backup to CD
> To: address@hidden
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> Hi folks!
>
> I'm looking for suggestions to my setup, thanks in advance.
>
> Every week I do a full backup (starts at about 300MB and reaches
> 600MB-650MB in 7 days), then I write to CD and erase the directory to
> start over again. One week, one CD. My concern is to loose the
> hard-disk in the 4th day, for example, when it has not gone to CD yet.
>
> Is there a better way to do it, so I would save space (not being
> necessary to do fulls every week) and/or could write to CD every day?
>
> Just continue doing incrementals seems not to be an option because
> then I would not be able to burn a single CD with it next week (and I
> don't know how to split it or save just the newer part).
>
> Is there an easy way to save the first full backup (and some
> incrementals) to CD, keep those on the HD (or not) and continue making
> incrementals, but save only the following incrementals to the next
> CDs? And save each incremental separatedly, in a multisession CD?
>
> I could arrange everything, make scripts, etc. I just don't know what
> to look for and where to break the directory files (without breaking
> duplicity).
>
> Thank you!
> Andre
> --
> Andre Ruiz  <address@hidden>
> Curitiba, PR, Brasil
>