On 8/10/06, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
> Audette, Michel wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am fairly new to Subversion. I would like to make regular
> > Subversion backups to DVD, on Suse 10 Linux, using for example K3b
> > DVD burning software, and to do this automatically and periodically.
> >
> > Is this feasible? Does anyone have any software scripts for doing
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks for your kind consideration.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Michel Audette, Ph.D.
> > Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS)
> > Philipp-Rosenthal-Strasse 55
> > Leipzig, Germany
> > Phone: ++49 (0) 341 / 97 - 1 20 13
> > Fax: ++49 (0) 341 / 97 - 1 20 09
>
> CD's and DVD's won't keep the file ownership or permissions properly, can't
> handle symlinks, can't handle certain filenames, and are a bit awward to
> split repositories across. You might consider using something like Amanda to
> create backup images, then put *THOSE* on CD or DVD.
That's not true. The Rock Ridge extension of ISO9660 supports
everything you mentionned, and is supported by pretty much any POSIX
system. In the past I used to do full backups of my Linux system to
DVD as plain files and it worked perfectly. Check the mkisofs man page
for options -r and -R.
And BTW to answer the OP you shouldn't need K3B if you want it fully
automated. Simply write a script that generates an ISO9660 image using
mkisofs, then writes it to disc with the appropriate burning program
(cdrecord for CDs, growisofs for DVDs).
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Received on Thu Aug 17 15:01:51 2006