[Klug-general] KLUG Project

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On Saturday 15 Mar 2008, Andrew Miller (Spode) wrote:
> I think this could probably be achieved with bash scripts.
>
> If I could make a slight suggestion..
>
> Half the problem I find with open source, is there are 100 projects all
> trying to do the same thing. Why not just find a backup program that is
> *close* to what you want and adapt it specifically to your needs? Either
> by forking the code, or by adding the base.
>
> Spode
>
> 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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> >> Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
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there are quite a few rsync based backup projects that may be worth using

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