[Leaplist] burn dvd backup

[Bryan J Smith]

Ingo Claro wrote:  
> I'm using Mondo Rescue great app!! just what I needed.
> I played a little with the tui, then read the man pages
> and found a suitable command line that answers all the
> questions and just burns the dvd. thanks to all! 

Glad it worked for you. Be sure to do some test restores.
Mondo Rescue, with Mindi Boot, really addresses the post-
disaster boot/get me back running, issue. Even if people
don't want to use the full solution, Mindi Boot is nice for
a recovery CD.

Hugo has really learned a lot over the course of the project.
It started out as a set of bash scripts built around afio.
The TUI is really sweet, works in a minimal mode, especially
with its accompaning Mindi Boot. I've critiqued the project
on protability and other issues in the past, but I've always
tried to avoid saying too much les I inherit the patches
I may say are needed (Golden Rule of Open Source ;).

It's really hard for me to point to anything else for DVD
media, and it can easily do disk archiving as well.  But for
myself, I use a combination of rsync to 2.5" SATA disks,
LVM2-DM snapshots on those filesystems, and then point
backups of critical information to DVD-R and DVD-RAM,
the aging back2cd for the former, rsync for the latter.

If I had a good half TB or more to backup, I'd definitely add
a LTO-3 or LTO-4 (probably the latter now) to the system,
which will see the media good for another 10+ years.
Beyond 5 years we'll see a radical shift in storage options.
I don't see it being EEPROM (flash), but more 3D crystal based.

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