[Digikam-users] Re: Back-ups on CD/DVD with DAR (was Re: On backing up)

[Peter Shute]

It depends how much data you have. Backing up to more than one disk, let alone dozens, is very tedious.

If you have a lot, it's probably suitable for incremental backups, but finding files on incremental backups is even more tedious, as you have to search them all.

As someone mentioned, 2TB external drives are getting very cheap now. That's the equivalent of hundreds of DVDs.

I use an external disk, keeping multiple backups on it. I ought to get a second one to rotate. I also make prints occasionally, but only of the very best.


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From: Johnny <yggdrasil at gmx.co.uk>
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Sent: Thu Feb 24 05:33:24 2011
Subject: [Digikam-users] Back-ups on CD/DVD with DAR (was Re: On backing up)

Another option is to use CD/DVD as a third option instead of foreign
servers. I am strongly considering DAR as a tool for this, which is a
Linux tool to make multiple DVDs, if necessary, and allow for
incremental backups and indexing.

However, I didn't get around to it; any opinions/experiences welcome, or
I'll report back if I implement it.

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