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 1LfzZA-0001T8-VA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:40:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50782E01F1; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.246]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C50E01F1 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id f25so993732rvb.46 for ; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:39:58 -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=qDVSkVvOyw1hkuJTXhk+IENp+Crdw1SzFbh6QsPPT2Y=; b=u92iCoE+ixnzIy1P9B1Ubf5hKEbvSyUTntxBlyGvM2XQKsGYVszpzRUDjhruePuq1i slXQx49cT2wysWklioYrQQ+ibEhQYg8sadmEklTwZu7tAXNAjiqpMnCkqN9/56JWDy6y j81m8wGjrFvHrLCVKwfC/8TQkAd/COhaw6THc= 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=H543hdcNnvmvlQafR0Tg3D11LC5CuGe4aWBJfs75YsKqTjsy6B1xdPowCb9lXb8sMx TfzZIgkkViGBJtxl8ld9Mt922KrAgrDpdflqYZVWbTF3Y2Vzvg7kVxJa0rATVjBc6xRl HO4OLP90YsP82UVD0zToELxlXo1hdzGsDav7g= Received: by 10.115.47.1 with SMTP id z1mr2313779waj.133.1236443998376; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:39:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.117.218? (dialup-4.230.117.218.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.117.218]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l28sm2247515waf.30.2009.03.07.08.39.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:39:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49B2A31A.5090700@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:38:50 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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] backup program recommendations? References: <49B03C4F.1050701@gmail.com> <200903061855.29047.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> <4e97d4190903070629w5e7583b8rf3af26dd76eb42a0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e97d4190903070629w5e7583b8rf3af26dd76eb42a0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a64fbe62-d7c7-4f19-9ddc-fccec3932cca X-Archives-Hash: 0e93dadc87def5aca5ffec607d3cbefe James Wall wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > >> On Friday 06 Mar 2009, 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? >>> >> DAR - http://dar.linux.free.fr/. There is also a gui, kdar. >> >> HTH >> -Robin >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Robin Atwood. >> >> "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, >> Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" >> from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I will check them out > > James Wall > > > I seem to recall that Kdar or dar had a bug that lead to it being masked. This was a while back so it may be fixed now but it may be worth checking into to make sure. Nothing worse than thinking you have backups when they are worthless. Dale :-) :-)