[geeks] Backup software (yeah, yeah, I know)

[Phil Stracchino]

Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Back in the CP/M days, I wrote a program that backed up hard-drive data to
> multiple [floppy] disks, grouping the files by size in such a way as to fill
> the disks and just copying the files.  I'd love to have something like that
> now.  Ideally, you'd give it a list of directories; it would then (a)
> assemble the files from those directories in a way that efficiently used the
> space on the DVDs, (b) make ISOs or whatever, and (c) burn the DVDs,
> prompting you to load the burner, etc.
> 
> Does something like that exist?  If not, anyone want to go into the software
> business?

You know, you could do this with Bacula by backing up to disk volumes
set for a maximum size of 4.7GB, then burning the volumes to DVD.


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