[SLUG] Backup

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> I drop a DVD-R into the drive, start K3b and its gui, drag and drop
> the
> directories I want on the DVD and (given settings and adjustments long
> established and known by experience to be optimal) press the burn
> button.  Ten minutes later I have a labelled DVD-R with all requisite
> files, backups, etc.  This has worked very well.

I hadn't played with k3b. It looks good, but for some reason I haven't
time to divine right now, it's not recognising the blank DVD I put
into the drive. It's looking like, too, it's not going to span discs.
But hey.

One of the things I used to have to mess around with when burning to
CD on my previous system was, I used a similar tool, but I had to mess
around every time dragging and dropping files in and out of the 'to
burn' bit until I had a CD full but no more, writing down the last
file, and going from that forward for the next CD. Over a deep file
hierarchy that's nonsense work that computers should do .. that's the
sort of thing I'm trying to avoid, although I can see that I'd have to
do much less of it with DVD than with CD.

J