[ale] Backing up to DVDs

[james at sumners.ath.cx]

I have been meaning to set this type of thing up myself since I got a
DVD-/+RW. If you come up with something please let me know. I haven't
had the time to work on things like this since I have actually started
taking school seriously.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:07:03PM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Does anyone know of any backup packages out there for Linux that will 
> write to DVDs?  Sure I could roll my own with a complex script involving 
> growisofs, dvdrecord, find and some filters but I was hoping not to 
> reinvent the wheel.  I envision tossing a DVD RW in the drive once a 
> day/week/? and letting the thing run overnight.  I'm not looking for 
> full system backups, just important data.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim.

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