mandrake_alf Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 i've looked for quite some time off and on for a Linux BACKUP solution that will use my CD-RW drive. I'm not in the frame of mind of getting my Segate TBU repaired (AGAIN) and I don't have adaquate access to offsite storage ... All I ask is for an appliation that will Read and Write my backups to a CDRW disk and do it without a truckload of 'techno babble'! Don''t get me wrong here... if a CLI solution is the best for the job I'll do it.. I"m definately not afraid of the CLI but at the same time, I'm sorta lazy and like 'point N click' convience. Thanx a bunch for your suggestions... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 Did you try drakbackup? I normally don't use it, (when I backup, I just tarbzip, then k3b the file) but apparently it does what you ask. Apparently == button is there under "advanced config, Where" to backup to a CD, CD-RW, DVD.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 It's in the Control Center, in the System section. Or you can say drakbackup in a term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrake_alf Posted April 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Drakebackup does not see any CDRW devices even though K3B does. I'd do the tarball/k3b thing but damn, I just don't think it should be necessary to have too... In my old windoew$ days, I had a backup schedeuled for every day and when needed, i had access to extract any file without a big hassle.... Ok.. I'm no longer doing windows but where is all the 'ease of use' promised by these distros??? I think one of my problems is I have an IDE HDD and my CDRW is hanging on a SCSI II controller. I'll replace it w/IDE when it goes out but not befrore then JUST to make mdk happy and fuzzy with my hardware config haveing matching interface drives... Oh... btw.... one more issue with using K3B is I have no idea what application to use to READ the contents of a CDRW? I've tried lots on a disk that I 'blanked' with K3B but every application says there either isn't a disk in the drive or wants me to 'format' it first. Maybe I'm in over my head here and should just backup to floppy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 My situation: an IDE HP9100 i CD burner. Drakbackup recognizes it. K3b does too. I haven't had any problem whatsoever reading CD-RWs from either K3b, Konqueror or Nautilus. Of course, K3b wants to erase these disks as soon as you tell it to burn, but not before. So yes, I do think it's something to do with your drive in particular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Well, if K3B is working the cdrecord is working ... so you could just write a shell script with a mkisofs then blank the media and a cdrecord incidentally what does cdrecord --scanbus show ?? what group are the /dec/scd* owned by etc .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarissi Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 As far as I know, linux won't do UDF 1.5 for CD-RW packet writing. So RWs are more expensive CD-Rs. DVD+RW is another story, as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 It doesn't do UDF packet writing BUT you can erase the CD-RW. For ages I didnt realise this DOH... but now I use it all the time. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrake_alf Posted April 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Ok... lets see if i have this right... tar the data i want to backup then mkisofs (of the tar.gz file?) then blank a CD-RW then burn the iso img of the backup to the CDRW disk REPEAT as often as necessary using the same disk till it wears out.. Right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrake_alf Posted April 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Damn... I forgot to mention I have almost 4GB of data that I absolutely HAVE to backup... Significantly larger than a single 700MB cd that significantly complicates this approach (doesn't it?).. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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