From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LfNJy-0005cD-SE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:49:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54556E00F7; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 23:49:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E87E00F7 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 23:49:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id f25so180659rvb.46 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:49:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1uVZhr75pGbjvj1JP3y+OmctVZ+ioOTdg3LrHShX8tI=; b=nNFMcNEl1wUyT4MaIO30Phpcgw+UNJ2nNJ7rbN8atQM247frX/QzArYBg8AHoTRigT Jz/g2zy2epSaZ2DQA5x3S5UXAs/CQbfqmyWEDkwBoiVa3CHlKAOL3GRTcN+c63VUE9vK SCcTHIlklVvHXmqZgHg9kbBJJDSrUFnDfV8A0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cvOR3qLOu1H/5XEpSIMp20xy/Z/HZyJ1mzqRl386K33Kgr3yu9f2L85PPfzvZHH7TJ 2QkiSzWbiMQLkDZq3b6PgczBfFMBeDRIthm/4oRB/f6kO/ZDlVgyknRhdw85JFhUt9CL SbAcnaN9L2DWsMnINzMK6hi3n8AgtZkhaGNLE= Received: by 10.140.157.5 with SMTP id f5mr917594rve.122.1236296984725; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:49:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? (mu.nmsu.edu [128.123.84.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f21sm1394086rvb.2.2009.03.05.15.49.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:49:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49B00242.1050704@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:48:02 +0000 From: Hung Dang User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090303) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: backup program recommendations? References: <49B03C4F.1050701@gmail.com> <49AFEB63.6070000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4d03147e-17ae-44c4-abd6-69e47442dfdb X-Archives-Hash: 9a7b0c035518068d74c05a471d900faf Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Hung Dang wrote: >> James Wall wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW >>> drive >>> to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What >>> programs would you recommend to handle this task? >>> >>> TIA James Wall >>> >>> >> You can try k3b > > Well, that's not a backup app. But anyway, I don't use a "backup app" > either. I just tar.lzma the whole thing and burn it :P > > My bad :( I thought it is the program to write to DVD. I am not sure what you want. In my case, I combine a bash script to compress, rsync ... with cron to do the back up weekly. It seem to be quite convenient. If you have big files using rar is faster and save more space than tar. Hung