[Klug-general] KLUG Project

[Wayne]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:02:39 +0000
Karl Lattimer <karl at qdh.org.uk> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 08:43 +0000, Dan Attwood wrote:
> > 
> > I've got an other idea for a small project - hopefully simple
> > project.
> > 
> > A music backup program. You point it at your store of ogg files and
> > press go. And you then just keep feeding it cd/dvds when it asks for
> > them. However unlike nearly every other back program i've looked
> > this one won't zip or compress the files in any way. It just fits
> > as much as it can onto dvd as native files and then moves onto the
> > next dvd. Thus should you need to recover you whitesnake collection
> > you can just grab dvd 6 and copy the files back off without needing
> > dvds 1 - 5 as well.
> 
> One thing I'd like to mention if you were going to do this.
> 
> High parity archives! splitting rars/tars/zips is all well and good,
> however you need to make sure if one CD breaks a bit, all of the music
> isn't suddenly trash.
> 
> If you can get over that small problem, then I'd use it! I've been
> looking for a decent backup program for archiving media, wizbit will
> be cool for concurrent backup, which is a distributed git
> filesystem... but its a while off and not suitable for media.
> 
> K,
> 
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The idea of a non-compressing music backup is a good one, was you
thinking making incremental backups the idea, just point it at your base
directory for music and it works out whats been added then burns the
additional to disk or more just a complete backup each time or both?
I would think incremental would be the most useful saving lots of time
on large collections!!!
You could have an option on whether to split albums over disks or not.

Wayne.