[Klug-general] KLUG Project

[Wayne]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:31:26 +0000
Karl Lattimer <karl at qdh.org.uk> wrote:

> 
> 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,

I use DAR disk archiver, it's very good IMHO. compression is
optional, in case of corruption, only the damaged file data is lost not
the entire disk, choice of incremental or full backups, you create
slices of a size to suite the media and what's more you can run a
script of choice after each slice creation. A very useful tool. We'd
need to script the burning of disks. There is a gui project Kdar too
but it does not deal with burning.

Wayne.