looking for backup software

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Monday, May 15th 2006, 11:27am

I am looking for some software to backup my data. These are on total 30 GB, so it needs some DVDs to backup everything. I could divide my data manuelly into 8x4 GB chunks und burn them one after the other.
Dividing everything into 4 GB parts is a stupid job. I would prefer if there was a programm that would do this for me and just tell me to insert CD 3/6 and 4/6 and so on. The dir-structure should remain on the cds, even if the content of one dir is split over several CDs. The main point is the everything should be in the same place if one copies all the cds back to the computer.

Is there some program like that ?

Matthias

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bram85

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Monday, May 15th 2006, 6:15pm

RE: looking for backup software

Yes, use 'dar' for this task. And there's a KDE frontend as well: kdar (surprise surprise). It can split up archives into pieces, such that it fits on CD, DVD, floppy, ZIP, whatever.

http://dar.linux.free.fr/
http://kdar.sourceforge.net/

Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

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pospiech

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Tuesday, May 16th 2006, 8:03pm

I have looked at kdar, but that stores into a spezial fileformat. That means that I am locked to unix, since I do not know a windows tool.

And there is another reason, I cannot use dar - I cannot access the files directly. For example, if I backup my mp3 then compression is useless and I would want to access the mp3 on the backup medium directly.

So I am somehow looking for a programm that creates k3b files for burning with maximum Medium sizes.

Matthias

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bram85

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Monday, August 20th 2007, 11:22pm

For what's it's worth, nowadays I use rdiff-backup, which does a pretty good job. Incremental backup + accessing your files directly.

Bram Schoenmakers
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crusie

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Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 9:13am

I am using WinBackup, worthfull

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JohnnyBoyClub

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Friday, May 21st 2010, 1:41pm

For a free backup program you wont get too many features but as you asking only for 30 GB i think you can find a lot but i recommend to use Dmailer http://www.dmailer.com/dmailer-backup.html they also offer online storage for backups if you need any.
The software is free and after my oppinion is the best software i ever used and found because has a lot of other features than all other free softwares.

Take care

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jsrefinance99

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Wednesday, September 15th 2010, 5:37pm