Comments on: Backing Up Media To Multiple DVDs : Ubuntu http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/ Enhancing your Ubuntu experience! Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:29:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: yan http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-665 yan Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:57:18 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-665 I was looking for s way to backup 400-odd GB, and I found a solution in kornelix's dkop. http://kornelix.squarespace.com/dkop/ Simple, gui and effective... I was looking for s way to backup 400-odd GB, and I found a solution in kornelix’s dkop. http://kornelix.squarespace.com/dkop/
Simple, gui and effective…

]]> By: jomiz80 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-664 jomiz80 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:09:05 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-664 Another option for this would be to use the linux SystemRescueCd [1] and use partimage to create your DVD-size backup files. Partimage can backup up a partition; compress it using gzip or bzip2; and, it can separate the archive into user-defined chunks. Since it is running from a restore cd, the user needs to manually mount a drive, which entails a minor understanding of the command line. There is a good thread on this topic on the UbuntuForums[2]. This is how I learned to backup my partitions. The only real snafu I encountered was a corrupt ext3 file system that was fixed by 'forcing' a check using 'e2fsck -f'. [1]http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page [2]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=287522&highlight=partimage Another option for this would be to use the linux SystemRescueCd [1] and use partimage to create your DVD-size backup files. Partimage can backup up a partition; compress it using gzip or bzip2; and, it can separate the archive into user-defined chunks. Since it is running from a restore cd, the user needs to manually mount a drive, which entails a minor understanding of the command line.

There is a good thread on this topic on the UbuntuForums[2]. This is how I learned to backup my partitions. The only real snafu I encountered was a corrupt ext3 file system that was fixed by ‘forcing’ a check using ‘e2fsck -f’.

[1]http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
[2]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=287522&highlight=partimage

]]> By: Oou Seaman http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-663 Oou Seaman Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:54:37 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-663 The biggest shops use Amanda. I have tried several others without being satisfied. Amanda uses tar and can write to almost any media. Tar is not perfect. But until the biggest shops find something they think is better, I want to do what they do. A tutorial on Amanda would be great. The biggest shops use Amanda. I have
tried several others without being
satisfied.

Amanda uses tar and can write to almost
any media. Tar is not perfect. But
until the biggest shops find something they think is better, I want to do
what they do.

A tutorial on Amanda would be great.

]]> By: roger http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-662 roger Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:30:00 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-662 check this fantastic backup guide using dar and kdar with screenshots http://www.ubuntugeek.com/disk-archive-backup-and-restore-using-dar-and-kdardar-frontend.html check this fantastic backup guide using dar and kdar with screenshots
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/disk-archive-backup-and-restore-using-dar-and-kdardar-frontend.html

]]> By: Sean http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-661 Sean Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:44:02 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-661 I think what you need is dar [1]. It's a command line archiving tool that you can use to archive your entire system, your homedir, or any folder. It can compress the archive, and it can split it into slices of whatever size you want. So if you were burning to CDs you met set the slice size to 600MB. Dar would split the archive into however many 600MB files as necessary. What's more, dar can pause after producing each slice, so that you can burn the slice to a CD then delete it (or do anything you else you like) before telling dar to continue. This means you only have to have 600MB of free space on your disk, even if your total archive is much bigger. Last I checked there wasn't a GUI way to do this on Ubuntu. Home User Backup [2] will be the solution, but doesn't appear usable yet. I recommend the command-line. There is also KDar but it's broken in edgy and looks like the package will be dropped rather than fixed. I wrote a detailed email about current and future backup options in Ubuntu, maybe I should dig it out and make a wiki entry. [1]: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup I think what you need is dar [1]. It’s a command line archiving tool that you can use to archive your entire system, your homedir, or any folder. It can compress the archive, and it can split it into slices of whatever size you want. So if you were burning to CDs you met set the slice size to 600MB. Dar would split the archive into however many 600MB files as necessary. What’s more, dar can pause after producing each slice, so that you can burn the slice to a CD then delete it (or do anything you else you like) before telling dar to continue. This means you only have to have 600MB of free space on your disk, even if your total archive is much bigger.

Last I checked there wasn’t a GUI way to do this on Ubuntu. Home User Backup [2] will be the solution, but doesn’t appear usable yet. I recommend the command-line. There is also KDar but it’s broken in edgy and looks like the package will be dropped rather than fixed.

I wrote a detailed email about current and future backup options in Ubuntu, maybe I should dig it out and make a wiki entry.

[1]: http://dar.linux.free.fr/
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup

]]> By: Ronaldo Maia http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-660 Ronaldo Maia Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:21:57 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-660 Looking more into that dar utility, I ran across with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup. Didn't try it yet, but I will sure do. Looking more into that dar utility, I ran across with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup.

Didn’t try it yet, but I will sure do.

]]> By: SFA_AOK http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-659 SFA_AOK Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:41:55 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-659 I'd be grateful if you blog about this in the future, solutions you tried but were lacking and what solution you ended up going for, possibly a tutorial if you think it'd help? I’d be grateful if you blog about this in the future, solutions you tried but were lacking and what solution you ended up going for, possibly a tutorial if you think it’d help?

]]> By: Mikael http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-658 Mikael Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:23:20 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-658 I second dar. kdar is a nice frontend to it. I second dar.
kdar is a nice frontend to it.

]]> By: killinmilk http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-657 killinmilk Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:11:07 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-657 perhaps this one http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml perhaps this one

http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml

]]> By: Karderio http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/10/backing-up-media-to-multiple-dvds-ubuntu/#comment-656 Karderio Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:10:33 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=248#comment-656 DAR : Disk ARchive I find this great for this sort of work. http://dar.linux.free.fr/ DAR : Disk ARchive

I find this great for this sort of work.

http://dar.linux.free.fr/

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