[Klug-general] KLUG Project

[Karl Lattimer]

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 09:30 +0000, Wayne wrote:
> 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.

Erm, I think I'm a little confused...

I thought you didn't want to have files on discs but bleh, misread...
incrementally storing files can be a pain though because CDs are easily
damaged. You'd need some kind of redundant data too.

Its always my biggest worry, I've lost so much data in the past that I'd
need something that can recover from a busted up disc. 

K,