[Leaplist] burn dvd backup

[Bryan J Smith]

Steve Litt wrote:  
> I don't think you have to. You can use a "best fit" program
> to define which files go onto which media. I don't know
> much about back2cd.tcsh, but if it can take a file listing
> files as input, you can use a bestfit algorithm.

Hence why I use it as "point backup/restore" solution, it
takes a list of directories.

E.g., my home directory, my wife's home directory, the
total of all IMAP directories of select mail folders, etc...
are under 10GB.  So they fit in a single back2cd.  It pumps
out a DVD iso for my wife in a directory, and she knows
to fire off a record.  It pumps out two DVD isos for myself,
one of my home directory, another of my non-mailing list
IMAP archives, etc... and I kick off a pair of records, etc...

I call it "point restore" because the DVDs can be directly
browsed. That way users can directly restore files themselves.
Of course, snapshots are another mechanism I use as well.
But I like having multiple mechanisms, for redundancy.
That includes more than snapshots, more than DVD point
backups, more than near-line copies, but off-line 2.5" SATA
drives and, when off-line size dictates it, LTO (possibly
with autoloader).

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