Re: [BackupPC-users] To burn DVD's

[Mark D. M. I. <tec...@te...>]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 13:16 +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am not an expert about BackupPC...
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> We would like to archive to DVD, and we are testing
> conf{XferMethod}=3D'archive' (we will record the file to DVD, etc.)
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> But we would like to do this process in automatic way (every night,
> etc.)
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> Documentation says:
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> host is a special archive host.  Backups are not done.
> An archive host is used to archive other host's backups
> to permanent media, such as tape, CDR or
> DVD.
> -------
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> So this is not automatic backup.
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> Which is the correct way to do this? conf{XferMethod}=3D'tar'? =BF?  am n=
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> sure...
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> Which is the correct method to Backup to DVD in automatic way?
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> I have read some documentation without any "tip" or method about this.
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> Thank you very much, we are really happy with backupPC program!
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Here's what we are working on doing at my work:

We us my archiveme.pl script to create a nightly incremental archive of
each host (full archives would be too big to burn on a single DVD).
The script then copies the generated archives to a directory for
burning.
A cron job should then burn this directory to a DVD every day using
growisofs (part of dvd+rw-tools).
(This is the step we are working on at the moment.  We think our burner
doesn't like the machine or maybe the discs we got.  hehe).

The script is available in the Backuppc section of my site at
https://techiem2.no-ip.com

Of course, you still have to swap out the DVD every day.
I'm thinking have the disc ejected after burning so whoever is in charge
of the swap can just pull it out and stick a new disc in for the next
run.

Mark II