[geeks] DVD based backup software

[Francois Dion]

On 8/21/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> For years I've used a Perl program called cddump that does multi-volume
> backups to CD-R, and it works well enough.
>
> However, the code is bad and the author abandoned it to work on a new
> utility.
>
> Does anyone know of any decent UNIX software for doing backups to CD and
> DVD media, with multi-volume an absolute requirement?
>
> Almost everything I've tried either sucks or is very incomplete.
>
> I tried things like Amanda, but didn't like how they worked.  The CD/DVD
> backends feel like a bad hack, and the media requirements were IMHO
> rather stupid, especially the need to pre-label backup tapes (mostly
> Amanda).
>
> I revisit this topic every 6 months or so, in my now N years long
> attempt to find something worth a damn.
>
> I piddle with the cddump code now and then and I might at least modify
> it to handle DVD smoothly, but its far from perfect.  I use it because
> it does at least work, as far as it goes anyway.
>
> Here's to hoping I've missed something that really does the trick.

What about cdrecord-prodvd
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/

supports multisession.

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/man/README/README.multi

DVD support is now free.

Francois