[H-GEN] DVD Backup & burning software under Linux

[Brendan]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 23:50, Stuart Longland wrote:
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> Joshua Marshall wrote:
> |>	Also, any recommendations for a backup program?  I'm currently looking
> |>into something like Bacula, but I'd be interested to know what others'
> |>opinions are.
> |
> |
> | Check out BackupPC http://backuppc.sourceforge.net - it's the best
> opensource
> | one I know of. Uses pooled hard disk for storage, has a web interface,
> can
> | use tar over ssh/rsync/smb to back up remote servers and has the
> ability to
> | dump to media such as tapes and files in tar format. You can then burn
> the
> | files to the DVD using something like cdrecord.
> 
> Ahh okay, I had seen this one, but the issue is getting the files onto
> the DVD.  I've currently got the ProDVD version of cdrecord installed on
> the server, however it currently is running in "demo" mode, which means
> that I can burn at most, 1 GB of data onto a DVD-RW -- rendering this
> media useless.
> 
> The other possibility, (if I can't find a suitable Linux program), is we
> put the burner into a Windows (shudder) PC and use something like Nero.
> ~ The server could send the user an email with a link to download the ISO
> image to burn at their leisure.  This has some advantages, but I'd
> prefer to have the server use the burner directly.
> 

The unintuitively named growisofs burns + and - flavours of dvd for me.

cheers,
-Brendan McCarthy