Holy Shmoly! » DVD backup http://ocaoimh.ie Look what I found today! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:27:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How do you backup to DVD? http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/01/19/how-do-you-backup-to-dvd/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/01/19/how-do-you-backup-to-dvd/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:25:43 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/01/19/how-do-you-backup-to-dvd/ Continue reading →]]> One of my external drives failed yesterday and for an hour I thought I had lost a lot of family videos and other stuff. My photos are backed up on to another drive with backuppc, but there simply isn’t room to backup everything there. Luckily the drive came back after I unplugged it and let it cool down but I don’t trust it now. I think I need a RAID server with at least 1TB of space to be future proof for the next 2 or 3 years.

I would love an application that you could point at a directory or a list of files and directories and it would burn them onto multiple DVDs, filling each disk to it’s maximum. Backing up my photo archive has always been a bit painful, trying to find and remember which directories I had just burned, comparing file listings, etc.

Tar doesn’t cut it however. I want to be able to restore a single file or directory by looking at the DVD contents in a file manager.

I used to have a DOS app that did this. I can’t remember what it was called, but point it at a directory of stuff and it would prompt for a floppy disk, write to it, prompt again, write, and so on until finished. Simple.

Is there a Linux or Mac app that will do that? I think I’ll write a shell script to do it if nobody else knows of an alternative.

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